3.)The intellect of the people began to rise in the time of 750 B.C. to 338 B.C philosophers began to propose physical and rational explanations for nature and politics without the influence of the Gods. These proposals gave the intellectuals a more concrete answer as to why nature was the way it is omitting the previous beliefs of Gods creating everything. Magic, mysteries, and miracles were now rational and logical explanations. Government, law and ethics began to be criticized by the people in order for them to have systematic ways of running their city-states. The government and its laws were now considered to the Greeks as human creation and reasoning and no longer was it given to them by the gods.
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