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.

Popol Vuh

In this story, it's about the Mayan civilization and their creation of the world story. One of the main things that they experienced was a trial and error method. First they made an animal, expecting it could talk and praise them. That's all they wanted after all anyways. That didn't work, so they got rid of them. The next thing they tried were people made of mud. These people were completely useless, becuase they could not walk or talk.You know the saying "The third times a charm"...not in this case. They were closer, but still not there. They made people out of wood. And they worked for a little while, but in the end they were no good. To get rid of them, similar to the Noah and the Flood story, the Gods send a flood to get rid of them. The last thing they tried was making people out of corn. (Shown in picture above). The Gods were very pleased with them. However, not everything is perfect. The corn people had flaws too. These corn people could see all. They knew everything there was to do. So the Gods fixed this problem by taking away their sight. In the end, the Gods could be praised and their creations were complete, and they were satisfied.

Noah and the Flood

In this story, Noah is the only one left that God still has faith in. Dissapointed in his people he sends a flood to wipe out the "disaster" he has created. He tells Noah to build an arc, "Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth" Once the flood is over, God sends a dove with an olive branch as his way of saying its over, and making a peace treaty.

Creation and Fall: Adam and Eve

In this story, God creates Adam and makes him a partner Eve. He tells them to not eat the fruit off of the tree of knowledge because then they will be all knowing and he doesnt want then. However, when Eve is tricked by the serpent they are punished because they disobey God. So he banishes them from the garden of eden, and he also punishes them individually too. “Unto the woman he said, ‘I will greatly multiply they sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.’ And unto Adam he said, ‘Because thou has hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree…Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou are, and unto dust shalt thou return.’” (Page 68)