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Ancient Greek Olympics
Title: Ancient Greek Olympics
Category: Social Sciences / Education
Details: Words: 5238 | Pages: 22.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ancient Greek Olympics
Reporting today's Olympic games is like a technological masterpiece.
The athletes compete in many events, their times and scores are tallied and
sent worldwide by satellites and high-tech computers within seconds. Each
event is carefully watched and recorded with a sense of history. There was no
such sense of history or records when the first Games began in Ancient
Greece.
The first recorded champion in Greece was a sprinter, Coroebus, he
was a cook in …showed first 75 words of 5238 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 5238 total…Greece joined the games. They came from Crete, Rhodes, Sicily, Asia Minor, and Egypt. These games served as a common link to the Hellenic world.
Nothing was more important to the Greeks then the Games, not even wars. During the month of the festival, no one with weapons was allowed into Olympia. The Olympics was far more important to the Greeks then any war, there was peace throughout Greece during the month of the Olympics.
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