The Akhet stage (inundation) was the first season between the month of June and September. It was the flooding season where no farming took place because all the fields were flooded. People during this period conducted other activities, for example, working for the King Pharaoh in building temples and pyramids, looking after their animals or mending their tools (Said, 2013). The second season was Peret or the Egyptian Autumn from the month of October to February. The season was marked as the …show more content…
Athens, the school of Hellas, was the hub of all advanced and civilized activities such as culture, philosophy, education, politics and so on (Colaiaco, 2013). In fact, Athens was renowned for the many learning institutions it had, which brought enlightenment to the people of Greece. The schools comprised of the best philosophers and the students. Apparently, Athens was seen as the center of the universe, where individual perceived the place as the finest of the Greece’s centers for culture and education. The term Hellas means Greece, frequently used by many people such as Pericles as a reference to the greater Greece