Ancient+Greece


 * **Ancient Greece: Greek Hero**
 * **Olympia:**
 * Used olive branches as crowns for winners of Olympic games.
 * Women were not allowed to participate in Olympic games.
 * Only women worked in temples.
 * Many Olympic champions never had to work.
 * Main events of the Olympic games were and are the pentathlon, chariot race and hoplite race.


 * **Sparta:**
 * Women were not allowed to go to war.
 * The King ruled Sparta.
 * Spartans use iron for money.
 * The King lived in the palace.
 * A 'codestick' was a way of secret communication.


 * **Athens:**
 * The Athenians had three rulers called Archons.
 * Athens is named after the goddess Athena.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Only men acted in plays.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The people of Athens held an annual festival for the god of wine; Dionysus.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A goat is sacrificed in preparation for the festival id Dionysus.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ancient Greece: Quizzes**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Athens:**
 * Boys went to school at the age of seven.
 * Democracy was invented in Athens.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Sparta:**
 * When you became twenty you were forced to join the army.
 * After battle, Spartan soldiers would hang their weapons and armour in trees to thank the gods for victory.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Mount Olympus:**
 * Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece.
 * There were twelve gods and goddesses who lived in Mount Olympus.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ancient Greece: Teacher Tube**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Know as birth place of western civilization.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Created the first democratic government.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Thrived 2500 years ago.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The civilization developed as city-states.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Religion was talk through folk tales, called myths.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Greek gos were believed to be immortal.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Oracles performed special ceremonies to communicate with the gods, and see in to the future.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A temple was built to be a home for the god's spirit.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Athens was most likely the best of the Greek city-states.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The world's first democracy was developed in Athens.

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