Monday -
Greek Mythology presentations
Tuesday -
Watch Zeus Video
Wednesday -
Judge Assembly
Thursday -
Watch Zeus Video
Friday -
Finish Zeus Video
Notes: Grece
Grece lots of islands 6000 (lots of mountains 75%)
Not great farm land
Very small country in Europe
Mainly peninsula
Ionian Sea, Mediterainian
Wasn't huge Population (Difficult to get in because of all the mountains)
Alexander The Great expanded the empire
Athens and Sparta main city states
*Ancient Grece Olympics*
- Records of olympics datre to 776 BC and lasted until 393 AD when Romans ended them
- Lasted one day at first but eventually extended to five days
- Happened every four years-an olympiad
- Started as a tribute to Zeus and has amythological origin
- The modern olympic games started up again in 1896 in Athens
Olympic Legend
- According to legend, it was Hercules who first called the games "olympic" and established the custom of holding them every four years
- After Hercules completed his twelve labors, he built the Olympic Stadium in honor of zeus
- Fowllowing its competition, Hercules walked in a straight line for 200 steps and called this distance "stadion"
- Long jump
- Javelin
- Discus
- Stadion-200 yards
- Wrestling
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