10/8- started mini presentations
10/9- finished presentations
10/10- went to assembly
10/11- watched video about Zeus
10/12- finished video and took notes
- The main part of Greece is on a peninsula
- Greece is surrounded by three large bodies of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Aegean Sea
- Ionian Sea
- The rest of Greece is made up of islands
- 6,000(227 are inhabited)
- Seas were important because of trading, transportation, resources like fish, defense from other countries
- 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 esstential due to lack of resources
- Mountains cover around 75% of Greece
- mountains made transportation over land difficult
- Greeks did not have much fertile land for agriculture
- Ancient Greece never had a large population
- no more than a few million
- These issues might have led some leaders, like Alexander the Great, to look to expand
- Records of Olympics date to 776 BC and lasted until 393 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 mytholigical origin
- The modern Olympic Games started up again in 1896 in Athens Greece
- Olympic Legend
- According to legend, it was Hercules who first called the Games "Olymic" and established the custom of holding them every four years
- After Herules completed his 12 labors(capture, steal, slay), he built the Olympic Stadium in honor to Zeus
- Following its completion, Hercules walked in a straight line for 200 steps and called this distance a "stadion"
- The big competition at the Games was the Pentathlon(Pente-5) (Athlon-competition)
- Long jump
- Javelin
- Discus
- Stadion-200 yards
- Wrestling
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