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The Olimpic Games began in ancient Greece arround 700 B.C.E. They were created in honor to their gods, but mostly important to Zeus, the father of all the gods. They were created in Olimpia, in the western sides of Peloponneses. https://www.olympic.org/ancient-olympic-games/history
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The legend says that the 2 sons of Mars, that were Remolus and Remus founded the city. The first ruler of Rome was Remolus because he killed Remus for becoming the king. He named the city in his honor later. Rome was ruled by kings for the next 240 years. www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_rome_timeline.php
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The last king is overthrown, so Rome got ruled by elected officials called senators. There is a constitution with laws and a complex republican government. www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_rome_timeline.php
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The first democratic goverment began in the city of Athens where the men could vote in order to decide who was going to rule the state. Cleisthenes was the one who created the concept of democracy, so he is considered the father of democracy. Etymology: the word comes from demos, "common people" and kratos, strength. http://sheet.malotine.com/ancient-greece-timeline-worksheet-ks2/
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The Classical Greek period was a time where the democray was refined and the arts, theater, philosophy, architecture and literature were fully developed and in Greece rebuilding of the parthenon was one of thne biggest achivements in the epoch. www.penfield.edu/webpages/jgiotto/onlinetextbook.cfm?subpage=1647293
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The Peloponesian war was fought by Sparta and Athens. It had an interruption after that interruption Sparta allied with Persia and finally Athens was beaten marking the end of Greece's golden age. sheet.malotine.com/ancient-greece-timeline-worksheet-ks2/
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The Trojan war started 200 years BCE. It was one of the most important wars in the world history . The war last 10 years and ended with the Greece
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One of the emperos of the Roman Empire was Nero, who thought that the Christians were bad people because they belived in only one god, not lke the Romans that were politheistics and for vengeance to them, he burn the Roman city and sayed that the Christians were the ones who cause it. He persecute the Christians. -notebook
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Julius Caesar becames a dictatorship and makes his famous Crossing of the Rubicon and defeats Pompey in a civil war to become the biggest and supreme ruler of Rome. www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_rome_timeline.php
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- The Roman Empire begins as Caesar Augustus(Octavian Augustus) becomes the first Roman Emperor. He created the Pax Romana, also called Roman peace(200 years).
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The Muisca or Chibcha civilization fluorished between the years 600 and 1600 ACE. Their territory was what now is Cundinamarca and Boyaca (Colombia). The culture was important arround the territory, and they had many rituals for their gods (politheistics), mostly important the one of "El Dorado".
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The Inca civilization led by Manco Capac, migrated to the Cuzco valley and stablish their capital there www.ancient.eu/timeline/Inca_Civilization/
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Pachacunti Inca Yupanqui begins a rebuilding programme in the Inca capital of Cuzco, and he also reigns as the leader of the Inca Empire.
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Viracocha, the supreme god of the Incas, began to build the Inca empire. www.ancient.eu/timeline/Inca_Civilization/
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Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui founds Machu Picchu in the High Andes.
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The history of the Tairona civilization began 2,000 years ago in the northern corner of Colombia. The major part of their territory was the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The human activity in the territory started between 6,000 years. laciudadperdida.com/about-ciudad-perdida/the-tayrona-people/#.WB0msy3hDIU
