Monday-
Presentations
Tuesday-
Zeus Video
Wednesday-
Judge Assembly
Thursday-
Zeus Video
Friday-
Greece is a small country in Europe, main part of Greece is a Peninsula, there are 6000 islands, and most of them are not inhabited. Greeks couldn't travel very easily, They didn't have very good farm land, Due to these issues Greece never had a large poulation-no more than a few million. Greece was a bunch city-states not a unified country. Ancient Olympics- Records of Olymipics 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 mythological origin, the modern Olympic Games started up again in 1896 in Athens.
According to legend, it was Heracles(Hercules) who first called the Games "Olympic" and established the custom of holding them every four years. After Heracles completed his twele labors he built the Olympic Stadium in honor to Zeus. Following its completion, Heracles walked in a straight line for 200 steps and called this distance a "stadion" Big competition at the games was the Pentathlon
1. Long Jump 2.Javelin 3.Discus 4. Stadion-200 yards 5.Wrestling
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