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776 BCE
First Olympics
Originally a festival for Zeus an held every four years features sports but also military games the winner got an olive wreath. -
750 BCE
Homer starts to write Iliad and Odyssey
Homer means blind poet he was a bard a person who told stories. they were recorded somewhere between 800-700 BC. -
480 BCE
Battle of Thermoplye
It was a fierce battle between the Greeks and the Persians. The Greeks knew that they had to stop them here, to the one side was the cliff, and to the other mountian range and it was narrow so the huge Persian army could send in a little part at a time. In the end the Persians won because of a traitor named Ephial
