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Minoa was a wealthy trading society that exported pottery, metalwork, olive oil, and wine.
Trade was very popular!
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An agora was an
open area set aside as a market and also was utilized for town meetings.
(the west side of an agora)
(an ancient agora)
An acropolis was a walled hill where people of the city could go for safety during enemy
attacks.
(Acropolis of Athens)
In Sparta there were more slaves than citizens. Spartans were an extremely violent
people who took what they wanted by force.
Helots were Spartan farm workers who had to work the land to pay half their crops to their Spartan conquerors
as "taxes".
Clearly, Spartan culture was militaristic. Spartans lived life as if defending their
city was the most important thing in the world.
Spartans did not fear death.
Athenian girls worked in their homes.
Spartan girls
practiced sports and trained to be physically strong.
Athenian boys did not go to school. They worked with
their fathers as potters, farmers, and stoneworkers.
Spartan boys were educated and spent most of their time training
to be soldiers.
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Democracy began in ancient Athens.
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The Statue of Zeus was located at Olympia where the Olympic Games took
places every 4 years.
The first Olympic Games had only one race and lasted just 1 day! After the 14th Olympics a second race was
added.
There used to be competitions in music, speaking skills, and theater as well and they all counted
as Olympic events.
The five Linked rings (seen below) symbolizes the modern Olympic Games which stands for the
5 continents (North and South America count as one continent).
Homer
was an epic poet who wrote epic poems that helped us comprehend the ancient Greeks by telling stories and histories.
The Iliad and the Odyssey are Homer's 2 famous epic poems.
 (Homer the poet)
(Homer the cartoon)
Page song-Mozart-"Moonlight Sonata"
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