Monday- watched presentations
Tuesday- took 5 minutes of notes
Wednesday- watched the Iowa Supreme Court talk in the auditorium
Thursday watched Zeus video
Friday- finished Zeus video
Importance of Geography to Greece
- The sea was extremely important to the Greeks
- Did not live "on the land" but "around the sea"
- Most Greeks lived within 85 miles of the sea
- Used the sea as a means of transportation
- The sea linked all parts of Greece to other areas for trade which was essential due to lack of resources
- Mountains cover around 75% of Greece
- Due to mountains, transportation over land was difficult
- Greeks did not have much fertile land for agriculture
- Due to these issues, ancient Greece never had a large puplation-no more than a few million
- These issues might have led some leaders to look to expand-see next slide
Greek City-States
- Due to Greece's geography, city-states developed instead of a unified country
Ancient Olympics
- Records of Olympics date to 776 BC and lasted until q393 AD when the 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 a mythological origin
- The modern Olympic Games started up again in 1896 in Athens, Greece
Olympic Legend
- According to legend, is 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
- Following its completion, Hercules walked in a straight line for 200 steps and called this distance a "stadion"
- The competition at the games was the Pentathlon
- Long jump
- Javelin
- Discus
- Stadion-200 yards
- Wrestling
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