Greek legacies are their governmental systems, culture and arts, and science and technology. Classical Greece was a time where the growth of a community held strong through times of plague, wars, and numerous breakthroughs. A major legacy left by classical Greece was a government based on direct democracy. With a direct democracy, citizens ruled by majority vote. The citizenship was expanded to all free males, except foreigners. Those not considered citizens were women, slaves, and all foreigners. In 621 b.c.e., Draco, an Athenian lawmaker wrote the first legal code. In the legal code Draco dealt with contract and property ownership,...
geometry propositions and proofs. Another important scientist, Archimedes of Syracuse, accurately estimated the value of pi. He also explained the law of the lever and invented the pulley to lift heavy objects. The science and technology of this time was contemporary and revolutionized classical Greece into a civilized world.

Greece has left legacies of governmental systems, cultures and arts, and science and technology. Classical Greece broke through the harsh realities that were bequeathed upon them and created a civilization of truth and honesty to their city-states, art and culture for their people, and science and technology for their future.