MONDAY- talked about Zeus
TUESDAY- projects
WEDNESDAY- no class, Justice Christenen talked to us
THURSDAY- talked about girl's education, went over the powerpoint, people presented their god, watched video
FRIDAY-
Islands, water
didn't have great farmland (to started trading and dominating)
Geography of Greece
-small country in Europe
-the main part of Greece in on a peninsula
Greece is surrounded by what three large bodies of water? Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea
The rest of Greece is made up of islands -6000
Importance of Geography to Greece? Sea - travel, food, trading, didnto live on the land but around it
Mountains over 75% of Greece
Due to mountains, transportation over land was difficult
Greeks didn't have much fertile land for agriculture
Due to these issues, ancient Greece never had a large population no more than a few million
These issues might have led some leaders to look to expand (Alexander the Great)
2 major states
Athens & Sparta city state
Ancient Olympics
-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 ever 4 years (Olympiad)
-started as a tribute to Zeus
-showed up again in 1896 in Athens, Greece
Olympic Legend
- Hercules who first called the games "olympic" and established the custon of holding them every four years (God of Sports)
-After Hercules completed his twelce labors (capture, steal, slay) he built the Olympic Stadium in honor to Zeus
-Following his completion, Hercules walked in a straight line for 200 steps and called this distance a "stadion
1. Long jump 2. Javelin 3. Discus 4. Staion (200 yards) 5. wrestling
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