The Spartan Way

SUMMARY:


Sparta's desire for a strong army had a great deal to do with its relationship with neighboring Messenia. Sparta conquered Messenia which gave them control over a large area of fertile control. The Spartans demanded that any food grown by the people living in Messenia had to to give have of their food to the Spartan's. For more than 200 years Sparta was the most powerful city-state in ancient Greece. The Power of Sparta came from the professional army. Brutal training and discipline made Sparta's army one of the most-feared fighting forces ever.

Athens was the birthplace of democracy, where all citizens could vote on city matters. Sparta was a a secretive place and was run by the wealthy/rich families. Spartan's kep few writen records and left few ruins for historians to study.


QUOTE: "The boys also steal whatever provisions they can, thereby learning how to pounce skillfully upon who are asleep or keeping guard carelessly" wrote pone historian who lived in ancient times.


CITATION:  Price, Sean. "The Ancient Olympics." The Ancient World. Print. 

The Ancient Olympics

Summary:


Very early Greeks where the start of the ancient olympics. A lot of Greek legends describe most of the olymmpic competitions/events. The most popular one tells the story of a famous chariot race held near Olympus bewtween a king named Enamaus. According to legend he had a beautiful daughter named Hippodamia. he promised her marriage to the first man who could find her, and escape in a chariot with her father in pursuit. 13 young men failed to the task. And Enamaus put each one to death. then came Pelops's turn. When he had found the princes and had the king, the king mysteriously broke his neck and died. Pelops's married Hippodamia and declared himself king. 


Athletes who competed in the Olympics where not just average citizens. they had to be wealthy enough to trouble to a game and from a game and to pay their living expenses while they trained. In the early day of the games the only reward was a wreath. For many centuries, woman were barred not only as competitors, but also also as spectators. The penalty for braking this rule was death. By the time of the 128th Olympics, woman were aloud to compete, and as well watch the games. In that year according to the ancient written records the winner of a chariot race was a woman named Belisiche, from the country of Macedonia. After a c time they also included footraces, chariot races, wrestling, boxing, and a brutal sport called pancratium. Men where often permanently injured or killed in this event. 


Quote: "The Discus Thrower" represents the Greek ideals of athletic and physical perfection. 




Citation: Knight, Theodore. "The Ancient Olympics." The Ancient World. Print. 

blog post #2

  

 a) What values were most important to early Greeks and why were they considered important?


Justice was on of the most important ones. The others where pretty much the same, but i might have just understood wrong. I think that these where important because for someone to be a hero or royalty or a god they should be in one of these categories. Each one must have one of theses values or more.


   b) In what ways are early Greeks values found in modern society?


In the modern society Greek values are as important as they use to be. Each human has a value. The Greek values are more for hero's and royal people and gods, but now in modern time it can describe any people but maybe not with the exact word. 

Describe Minoans and Mycenaean civilization

The Minoans and Mycenaean where civilizations from Greece. They both made jewelry out of metal, pottery to store olive oil and grains and had similar writings. The Mycenaean had weapons of bronze and gold as for the Minoans used it to make jewelry. Both had a usage of water. The Mycenaean had bath tubs made out of clay and where attached to the walls they didn't have any toilets that where able to flush.

 The Minoans had bath tubs made out of clay to but their bath tubs where able to be moves from a room to another and they had toilets that flushed. They worshiped similar goods too. Both gods had to do something with the world. If i would have to be in one of these civilizations it would probably be the Minoans because the had more modern stuff like things we have now, a lot of jewelry flushing toilets and so on.

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Unit reflection

This unit about Egypt was very new for me because i have never learned of it. it was very interesting learning about the Nile, how they made boats, the animals and all those different things. during this unit i think i was open minded and caring in some ways. I also think i was very organized. We have used allot of things that the Egyptians made up and used long time ago. We used allot of things to hunt for food, get shelter and much more.