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Ancient greece was founded abou 2,500 years ago. By 800 BC small villages started to turn into towns. Some of the Greeks even made city states. Ancient greece was not it's own country, and it didn't have a single ruler or goverment. It was a bunch of states. Greece is located in Europe.
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By 776 BC the first olympic games began. Some of the olympic games included foot races, chariot races, discos, jumping, and running with armor. The olympic games still happen every year today.
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in 508 BC Kisththenis grew powerful and placed foundations of an Atheian democracy and with very serious forms.
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Just east of Greece was the large Persian empire. In 499 BC Greek started to argue and fight with Persia and it soon broke oou into war. Some of the Greek colonies in Asia Minor were conqured by the Persia.
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In 404 BC the Athens surrenderd to Sparta. Then after the peloponnesia war, the Thirty Tyrants ruled the Athens. Tyrants are very bad people. If they didn't like someone they would kill them and if something was not how it was supposed to be or if they didn't like it they would destroy it.
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In 336 BC Phillip The Second was assinated. After his assination his son Alexander The Great took his place as king.
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In 323 BC Alexander The Great died. After he died the Hellenistic age began. The Hellenistic age was a time when Greeks cane in contact with people out side their culture but it was uneffected by other cultures. Their culture was purified.
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In 146 BC the Romans had beat the Carthage in war. After the war they moved to their next targets, the Greeks. After a few monts of prevoking the Greeks, the Romans defeated them too.
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