A+E Networks. The term âclassical Greeceâ refers to the period between the Persian Wars at the beginning of the fifth century B.C. and the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.ed by Athens and Sparta, the Greek city-states were engaged in a great war with the Persian Empire at the beginning of the fifth century B.C. In 498 B.C., Greek forces sacked the Persian city of Sardis. In 490 B.C., the Persian king sent a naval expedition across the Aegean to attack Athenian troops at Marathon.
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A fundamental distinction that languages make is between transitive and intransitive verbs. Basic transitive verbs involve an action, instigated by an agent (subject), which is carried out on an object, usually changing the object in some way.ll languages have nouns and verbs. The most basic nouns, those that have representation in all languages, express basic physical objects such as the sun, moon, people, animals, and so on. The most basic verbs express universal human actions, such as eating, drinking, loving, killing, growing, and so on.