of thought. Spartans valued power and built their city-state to protect themselves from revolts and attackers. Because the Spartan’s strong obligation to do their duties‚ they exemplified a good name and showed it by their powerful city-state. Athens‚ a city-state that gave freedom to their people‚ was filled with people willing
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Ancient Greek Legacies Throughout Ancient Greece there have been many legacies. The Olympic Games were created and become part of history. Architecture influenced modern buildings. During these times‚ different types of literature were produced. Three greatest legacies of Ancient Greece are literature‚ the Olympic Games‚ and architecture. The Olympic Games was created because of a myth. It began when Oenomaus‚ the king of Olympia had a daughter named Hippodamia and wanted to compete with the person
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Steve Johnson PHE 120 Bronzan 9/5/12 Is it Worth the Costs to Host the Summer Olympics? The Summer Olympic Games are some of the most prestigious‚ and most watched sporting events on the planet that are all mixed into one huge international event. With this prestige come the best athletes in the world‚ ranging from track and field and swimming‚ to table tennis and equestrian. All of these athletes come together every 4 years‚ to a city that is picked by the International Olympic Committee. To
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Short essay on the purpose of Olympic Games In the past some of the nations had bycotted the Olympic games because of political rivalries and differences but that does not mean that Olympics should be subordinated to political considerations. In fact the very spirit of Olympics is needed to remove tension from the world. In fact games‚ in general‚ are always helpful in bringing the nations closer ; it was ping-pong team which ironed out the differences between China and America. Olympic games
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Winning Heights in the Men’s Olympic High Jumps Introduction: The Olympics are an international sporting event that is held every four years where people from around the world send their best athletes to compete and see who the best of the best is when it comes to sports. The Olympics date back to Ancient Greece where their basic events included track and field‚ which are like men’s high jump which is the topic of this report. In this problem we are looking at the data collected from the gold
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------------------------------------------------- History Main article: Wrestling history Wrestling is one of the oldest forms of combat with references to it as early as the Iliad‚ in which Homer recounts the Trojan War in the 13th or 12th century BC.[3] The origins of wrestling can be traced back 15‚000 years through cave drawings in France. Babylonian and Egyptian relief’s show wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. In ancient Greece‚ wrestling occupied a prominent
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Greek legacies are their governmental systems‚ culture and arts‚ and science and technology. Classical Greece was a time where the growth of a community held strong through times of plague‚ wars‚ and numerous breakthroughs. A major legacy left by classical Greece was a government based on direct democracy. With a direct democracy‚ citizens ruled by majority vote. The citizenship was expanded to all free males‚ except foreigners. Those not considered citizens were women‚ slaves‚ and all foreigners
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Business opportunities for companies Businesses in New South Wales won A$1bn worth of contracts from the Sydney games and an additional A$300mn was generated by local business. Over 55‚000 people received employment related training. If London hosted the Olympic games‚ thousands of UK firms could be involved in supplying everything from construction to manufacturing‚ catering to merchandise. (http://www.sportengland.org/2012_uk.htm) Boost to tourism The tourist industry won’t just boom during the
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Kevin Rooney Professor McCarthy Comparative Politics October 7‚ 2012 Current Issues in Greece Greece is a country with a very rich history of tradition‚ from the gods of ancient Greece‚ to the beautiful landscape in the Mediterranean‚ all the way to the development of Democracy. The Greek political system is similar to the United States but also different in many ways. The government type is a parliamentary representative democratic republic. The prime minister is the head of
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DBQ ROY SCHWARTZ Ancient Greeks made many influential contributions to western civilization such as in the areas of philosophy‚ art and architecture‚ and math and science. In every sector of life‚ from law to politics to sport‚ the terminology and innovations of this period are still relevant today. In fact‚ it’s fair to say Western civilization as we know it was made possible
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