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The ancient Greek city-state of Sparta was the only place where girls engaged in physical competition, an idea shocking to other Greeks in Plato's time.
The Greeks named seven planets. The Sun and moon were set apart as the greater planets. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were the lesser planets. (Earth was not a planet, but the center of the universe.)
During the 400's B.C., Athens became the most successful democracy of ancient Greece as well as the world's most powerful and highly civilized city.
Ptolemy—not to be confused with the Greek ruler of Egypt and his descendants—developed a system of astronomy that would remain in use for some fourteen centuries.
Delphi: A town situated on the southern slope of Mount Parnassus that had the oldest and most influential religious sanctuary in ancient Greece.
The celebration of the Olympic Games was an occasion for citizens of scattered Greek city-states to assemble. At the Games they discussed important political issues, celebrated common military victories and even formed political and military alliances.
Very few girls in ancient Greece attended school, but some others learned to read at home.
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Like us today, people in ancient civilizations participated in a global marketplace. They mass produced goods to sell at home or as far away as Africa and China. The manufacture and trade of specialty goods included glass, bronze, and ceramics.
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Hippocrates earned his reputation of father of medicine because he was the first doctor to identify the causes of disease in nature rather than claim the gods caused them..
This unusual percussion instrument is composed of twin sounding bars with spiral resonators on each end and a series of small tubes in between.
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Food, for the Greeks, had all sorts of religious and philosophical meaning. The Greeks, to begin with, never ate meat unless it had been sacrificed to a god, or had been hunted in the wild.
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