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Military Forces Safety Precautions
1,614 wordsPE 116 Movement Education Kevin Jun Date 4 - 21 - 99 The word gymnastics came from the Greeks. The Greeks used this word to describe any type of physical activity. Exercise was an important part of their education process, sort of like what is in place today. They used exercise in order to beautify the body, promote health, comfort, strength, and vigor. The Romans took the Greeks beliefs on exercise, and used them in training their military forces. After the Romans, exercising virtually dropped ...
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1,243 wordsCompare and contrast how the ideas about government affected the governing of Sparta and Athens. Even in single countries, different regions sometimes have governments that are very similar and at the same time, very different. Such a case occurred in ancient Greece, in the city-states of Sparta and Athens. While Sparta was more based on oligarchy, Athens was a democracy. Their profound differences in rule often caused them to war against each other. These two significant ancient Greek city-stat...
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1,519 wordsHOW ATHENS TOOK OVER LEADERSHIP OF SPARTA AFTER THE PERSIAN WARS During the period of Greek history from the last years of the Persian Wars till the beginning of the First Peloponnesian War, the primacy of Sparta declined while Athens was gaining increased influence in Greece. The Athenian, Thucydides (460 - 400 BC), one among few contemporary historians, left behind the most creditable records about this period. Although he did not give enough documentation for many events he described, his His...
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Hundreds Of Years Years Of Age
1,644 words... s to indicate relative peace under some form of central authority, Mycenaean civilization was characterized by independent city-states such as Corinth, Pylos, Turns and, the most powerful of them all, Mycenae. The Mycenaean's were closed within massive walls on easily defensible hilltops. The ruins of Mycenae walls were termed Cyclopean, because they were thought to have been built by the like-named giants. The Mycenaean's most impressive legacy is magnificent gold jewelry and ornaments, mos...
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Oxford Oxford University Plato Believed
1,326 words... our the Athenians did not stress physical prowess as much as the Spartans, they did not disregard it all together. Young children were trained at the palestrae, gyms for children, by paidotribes, in activities such as running, jumping, wrestling, and swimming. Plato believed that children are trained physically so that they may not be compelled through bodily weakness to play the coward in war or on any other occasion (Protagoras 326. C). However, it seems that the training the children rece...
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Alexander The Great Greek Civilization
1,097 wordsOur civilizations are merely a wrinkle in time. Billions of years ago, during the Paleolithic Culture people had only knowledge for basic survival. The Stone Age was a time for hunting and gathering, building tools, and making fire. As the human race evolved, so did the culture. This is when the Neolithic Culture was born. People started taking control. Farms sprang up and sedentary villages began to take form. Amazingly, not too far from these progressing cultures grew civilizations. When one w...
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Greek Civilization Asia Minor
1,587 wordsThe Ancient Greek civilization was located on the same land Greece is now, Ionian Islands, Asia Minor, South Italy, and Sicily. It is surrounded mountains and in the north by water. The Ionian and the Aegean seas, together with natural islands and bays, gave the Greeks the opportunity to develop their high level of commerce and their rich culture. The mountains, which surrounded Greece, gave them the advantage of being well protected. From earlier times, the Geeks lived in independent settlement...
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Three Hundred One Day
1,238 wordsSteven Press fields The Gates of Fire is set in the fifth century B. C. in Greece. The story revolves around the famous battle of Thermopylae where three hundred Spartans held off hundreds of thousands of Persians, saving Greece. Press field creates a fictional story around the battle where one man, a squire named Xeones, survives to tell the Spartan story of the battle and the events preceding it. Xeones, who is the protagonist, tells his life story to the royal Persian historian while in capti...
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Rest Of His Life Spartan Society
1,211 words... on through Spartan military training, and seeing his friends die in battle while he remained alive. While my life has been event free and relatively good. When Xeones parents were killed he devoted his whole life to vengeance. I have never experienced such a powerful, driving form of vengeance, hopefully I never will. After the destruction of his country Xeones joins the Spartan military and spends the rest of his life undergoing going rigorous training. He fights in dozens of campaigns in h...
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Athenian Democracy City States
613 wordsMountains, valleys, and water isolate Greece. Hundreds of islands are scattered along its coast. As a result of this type of geography, Greece could never become a large unified empire, so instead, small city-states were created. A city-state was known as a "polis." A polis was made up of a two different parts; the lower ground was the main city, which was housed within a large wall. The upper ground was the hilltop acropolis. These acropolis' were used as military posts, and for religious pract...
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Century B C Social Structure
1,358 wordsOUTLINE I. Introduction. In society today the term "warrior" is used loosely and sometimes even associated with an athlete training for a specific event. By the fourth century B. C. , Sparta designed a culture solely for training soldiers, a warrior culture. The problem with the design of a warrior culture is not in the fighting capabilities of the group, but in the lack of an artistic legacy that was lost during the life of a fighting culture. II. Body. 1. Historical Background a. Prior to the ...
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1,369 words... vil service. Another contribution to the Spartan government that Lycurgus provided was the money system. The Spartans used pieces of iron instead of silver and gold. This type of monetary system was of very little value outside of the Spartan city-state and made the citizens dependent upon the local economy. The warrior culture of Sparta was battle tested time and time again and proved to be the strongest battle ready nation within the Grecian region. The Spartans were called upon during man...
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Gates Of Fire Battle Of Thermopylae Spartans
931 wordsThus reads an ancient stone at Thermopylae in northern Greece, the site of one of the world's greatest battles for freedom. Here, in 480 B. C. , on a narrow mountain pass above the crystalline Aegean, 300 Spartan knights and their allies faced the massive forces of Xerxes, King of Persia. From the start, there was no question but that the Spartans would perish. In Gates of Fire, however, Steven Pressfield makes their courageous defense -- and eventual extinction -- unbearably suspenseful. The st...
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1,757 wordsSparta: Uncultured Discipline The Spartans were the most formidable warriors in all of history. They dedicated their entire lives to warfare. They were taught to endure cold, hunger, pain, their courage on the battlefield was second to none. The Spartan code was to fight hard, follow orders without question and to die rather then retreat or surrender. To achieve all this, Sparta sacrificed everything; the arts, culture, and other things that make life worth while. I believe the price was to high...
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Divided Into Three B C E
3,385 wordsI. INTRODUCTION Greek Civilization OUTLINE: I. INTRODUCTION Brief statements on; A. The Minoan? s B. The Mycenaean? s C. The Spartan? s D. The Athenian? s II. BRONZE AGE A. The Aegean World B. The Tools of the Bronze Age III. MINOAN? S A. Civilization on Crete B. Minoan Society C. Minoan Palaces D. The Knossos E. Linear A, Linear B tablets F. The Minoan Caves IV. MYCENAEAN? s A. Decline of the Minoan Civilization B. The War-like Mycenaean? s C. Linear B tablets D. Fall of Mycenaean Civilization ...
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Nba Finals Magic Johnson
2,802 wordsThe L. A. Lakers in the 1980 s were a basketball powerhouse with household names such as James Worthy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kurt Rambis who would doubt it. They had class and displayed it on the court. Kareem could pull up for his patented sky hook, they could dish to Worthy for the dunk and Rambis could pull down a rebound, but without a certain Magic there would be no showtime in L. A. A certain young player who had it all, a flashy smile and a great no look pass. That certain player was a ...
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1,418 wordsThe Battle of Marathon One of the most significant battles in antiquity was fought on the narrow, tree strewn plain of Marathon, in September, 490 BC. There, the Athenian army defeated a Persian force more than twice its size, because of superior leadership, training and equipment. The battle of Marathon has provided inspiration to the underdogs throughout history. In 490 BC, the Athenians proved that superior strategy, and technology can claim victory over massive numbers. In 646 BC the Persian...
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1,079 wordsSpartan society was structured around the army, always ready to fight or defend if the need arose. Spartan males were the only ones permitted to serve in the army though, and due to the males devotion to warfare the lives of everyone in the polis of Sparta were also greatly affected. This militaristic nature of the Spartans had an impact on the female members of the polis, the helots and the perioeci. The government was also impacted. Military training for a Spartan male began when he was still ...
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Greek City States Won The War
2,196 words? Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds. The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection; and he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel; those who delayed doing so at once hav...
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Taught To Love Strength And Bravery People
901 wordsPros and Cons of the Spartans PROS 1 st- A positive aspect of the Spartan Code was the idea to train their young beginning at a young age, by giving power to the state to control the youth. This allowed many of the children to have an equal opportunity in the situation given although they did not have many options. They could all be taught the same concepts, and this would create more unity among the people which was very important, although the method by which they took action upon this was som...
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