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Greek City- States

Greek city states or polis are small kingdoms, each fighting for control
over the whole of Greece. Polis, also known as a city state, was very
big. Each polis had villages, fields for growing crops and marketplaces.
Each polis had about a population of 5,000 to 10,000 people. It was the
geographical and political center of Greek life. Each polis had its own
government and laws.

The Acropolis was a fortified hill in the middle of a polis that had a
temple of the local god on the top of the hill. It was the upper habitation
of the polis. It was also used for defense during a war. One of the most
important and well-known acropolis was the Athena Acropolis in
Athens.

The Agora was an open area used for trading or as a marketplace at
the base of the Acropolis. It had many stalls which had goods such as
meat, olives and statues, clothes, toys, jewels etc. Over time, people
started living around the agora to buy and sell things. This led to a
small city around the marketplace.
by Harsha A. Paudel

Gautam Buddha’s Journey to Enlightenment

We all know Gautam Buddha is a god. There had meditated for all their life, but he did not get
are a lot of buddhas, one of them being Gautam the answer he wanted. So he tried looking for the
Buddha, who is the seventh Buddha. Gautam answers that he wanted himself. Siddhartha shaved
Buddha’s real name is Siddhartha Gautam. his head and started to meditate under the Bodhi
Tree for 49 days straight. There is a myth about
In Gautam Buddha’s early life he was the prince how demons tried to stop Siddhartha to achieve
of Kapilvastu in the Lumbini Province. He knew the knowledge he was trying to grasp. The demonic
nothing about life and death, he did not know about activities did not affect Siddhartha finishing the 49
age nor anything about life because his father did days of meditation. After the days that had taken
not want Siddhartha to know that people had to place, Siddhartha had an invisible aura making him
pass away one day or another. He only found out worthy of becoming the seventh Buddha. He had
about this topic when he went out of his palace achieved all that he wanted.
and saw a dead body of an old man and a homeless
person lying down on the streets. With Yasodha Siddhartha then had the four noble truths that he
(Siddhartha’s Wife) and Siddhartha’s son sleeping got from the meditation, these noble truths are
in the palace, Siddhartha left home and wanted to popularly known among Buddhists, they are the
start a new life with new wisdom, trying to know truth of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads
everything about life, death, and all the knowledge toward the end of suffering. Simply suffering exists,
the world could offer. it has a curse, it has an end, and it has a cause to bring
After the events that had just occurred in his life, about its end. Another dedication and achievement
he went to many wise people and monks who Siddhartha achieved while meditating in the Noble

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