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The Olympics started off as a festival to honor Zeus. Later they added a footrace and other games. If you won then you would receive a wreath of olive leaves and great honor.
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People got the right to participate in the government and Athens later made their government a democracy.
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He was a leading citizen of Athens who repeatedly elected as a strategoi or a generals. He was an amazing public speaker who usually convinced crowds.
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Athens had just burned down and the Athenian army and navy rammed into Persian ships and attacked them with soldiers on the boats,and they ended up winning.
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During the Golden Age Athens had the first historians,they made great pottery and developed science and medicine.
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He grew up in the golden age and helped fight in the Peloponnesian war. He studied ethics and taught it to random people in the streets.
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He was a play writer who wrote comedies that made fun of statesmen and philosophers .
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The Athenian army refused to meet the Spartans and they hid behind the walls that they built. The Spartans burnt all the corn and had to retreat.
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A plague swept Athens and many Athenians died. The Athenians tried to invade Sicily and surround the Spartans . The Athenians lost the battle and even more lives were lost
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He refused to break the law, he was convicted with a giant vote and was sentenced to death. He was forced to drink hemlock a kind of poison and died slowly.
