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Its when Homer wrote stories and the Olympic games started
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All male contestants were naked. Only male citizens were allowed to compete. The events that they had were running, shot put, long jump, javelin, boxing, prakration, and equestrian events.
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Iliad means lion. It is about the Trojan War. The word Odyssey means the figurative one. Its about Odysseys 10 year journey home from the Trojan War.
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Delian League was formed by Athens. Pericles started it. It was important because it gave money to pay for things. The Delian League turned into a Athenian Empire
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Born in Athens. Got a good education. Learned how to become a mason at a young age. Participated in 3 military campaigns. People thought he was annoying so they took a vote to see if he sould be executed or not and 280 people voted execute him and 220 people voted dont execute him. They put him to death by poisining him.
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45 feet tall and it cost 470 silver talents which is $7 million US dollars. It broke down and they rebuilt it.
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The Plague was a disease in Athens that killed 75,000 to 100,000 people. If you survived you would often have something wrong with you fingers or toes.
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He valued men above women. He went to Platos school. After 20 years he left Platos school and started his own school called the Lyceum.
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Born in Pella, Greece. He married 3 different people. He had 2 children. Conquered Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, the middle east and Egypt. Had an army of 35,000 men. Son of King Phillip. One of Aristotles students.
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There were 700,000 scrolls at the Library of Alexandria. By 400 A.D it vanished. At the Library of Alexandria there were a lot of important discoveries made about the Earth, math, books, writing, and grammar
