Ten Interesting Things About the Greeks...

1) The early Greeks are known as Mycenacans, they were named after tehir leading city, Mycenae. They were all traders and warriors.

2)Throughout the decline of Greece, they kept their culture alive by remenicing about the glory days in the past and teh heroes at Troy.

3) Around 500 B.C. Athens extended their power to men 18 or older who weren't slaves or foriegners, and Athens became the world's first democracy.

4) Aesop was thought to be a slave durring the Athens glory period. Also, more than one-third of the population were slaves.

5) 800-500 B.C. Greek tribal settlements were growing into independent city-states. Sparta developed into a military state.

6) At the end of the Persian Wars that continued on and off for a few years, Athens proved to be the strongest out of all armys.

7) Alexander the Great had united Greece, Persia, Egypt, and parts of India into one huge empire.

8) As shown in Hercules on the pots with images, pottesr would decorate wares with scenes of gods and heroes as well as of everyday life.

9) The women of Greece would marry around the age of fifteen to a man about twice her age. She was to raise her children in the women's quarters of the home away from the husband.

10) The Greeks believed that the Gods and Godesses lived at the top of Mount Olympus, a mountian in a range that divided mainland Greece into various regions.