HISTORY OF GREECE

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HISTORY OF GREECE

• ISLAND OF CRETE--GREEK CIVILIZATION BEGINS 3500
  YEARS AGO.
• MINOAN CIVILIZATION MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS !
• BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY(ATHENS)
• GREAT WARS OF GREECE
• WAR WITH TROY
• ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY-STORY OF THE TROJAN WAR AND
  THE EXPLOITS OF ULYSSES AND ACHILLES
• WAR WITH PERSIA
• THE 300 (SPARTANS AGAINST PERSIA)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vSj810hUDVUQfeature
  related

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GREEK MYTHOLOGY

• GREEKS WORSHIPPED MULTIPLE GODS WHO ACCORDING TO
  LEGEND LIVED ON MT. OLYMPUS
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vWP_NeirFIkM

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GREEK HISTORY

• CONQUERED BY ROMANS 200 B.C.
• TAKEN OVER BY TURKS IN 1453
• BECAME AN INDEPENDENT NATION IN 1829