Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece

• Important facts about Ancient Greece
• By Efrain Pena,Christian Vela,
• Danny Soto

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Persian Wars.

• The Greeks first war was in 500 B.C. They fought
  Persia, so the war was called the Persian War.
  Even though the Persians had more men the Greeks
  over came and won the war. That war changed
  Greece forever. After the Persian War people from
  Athens made friends with people from Greece and
  formed a protection for the city-states.

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Timeline of Greek History

• 31 B.C.-A.D. 330 Greece is under control of Rome.
• 323-331 B.C. Hellenistic Age
• 323 B.C. Alexander dies
• 338 B.C. Greece goes under the control of
  Alexander the Great.
• 404-431B.C. Peloponnesian War started
• 480-500 B.C. Persian War starts.

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Architecture In Greece

• Greeks life was controlled by religion. Greeks
  made temples to honor and worship god and
  goddesses. To build the temples they use 3
  different types of columns. They were called the
  Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
• The DORIC style is sturdy and its top which is
  called the capital is just plain.
• The IONIC style is not fatter but thinner and
  much more elegant. The capital is mostly
  decorated with a volute.
• The CORINTHIAN style is kind of seldom. It was
  the most common for Roman temples.

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Greek Foods.

• Greeks used irrigation along the shore line. That
  is were they also grew their crops. The grew and
  ate olives, grapes, and figs. The kept goats to
  make milk and cheese. In the plains the grew
  wheat to make bread. Fish seafood, and wine (made
  at home) were very popular foods. In the large
  more populated city-states meat could be bought.
  But it was mostly used for religious scarifies.

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Alexander the Great

• He was the most famous person in all of Greece,
  but he wasnt even from their. He was born in
  Macedonia in 356 B.C. Alexander got his horse by
  being the only person who could tame it. He used
  that horse in every battle. When Alexander was 20
  his father who was the king of Macedonia was
  murdered and Alexander became king.He first took
  over Greece, Persia, Egypt, and India. By the
  time he was 30 he had taken over the whole world.
  Alexander died at the age of 33 in 323 B.C. Many
  people thought he died of a fever but everyone
  else thought he was poisoned.

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Greek Clothing

• Greek clothing was very simple. Just like us they
  wore different clothes for different weather. In
  the summer men and women wore linen and they wore
  wool in the winter. They clothing was died so
  that it could be colorful.

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Education in Athens

• In Athens the kids had to go to school to learn
  certain things like the arts, peace, and war.
  Kids were taught a home by their mom or a boy
  slave until they were about 6 or 7 years old.
  Kids from 6 to 14 went to primary schools in the
  neighborhood or to private schools. Women could
  not be teachers, all teachers were men. He could
  teach drama, speaking, government,art, reading,
  writing, math, and music too. When kids turned 18
  they would go to military school until they are
  20 years old and graduate.