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Let's learn about one of the civilizations in ancient history.

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Ancient Greece.

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This civilization started about year 3500 BC.

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It started in a peninsula and a group of islands in the Mediterranean Sea.

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This important civilization had a great influence in the following years.

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Greece.

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The Greeks traveled through the Mediterranean and arrived to the Iberian Peninsula.

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They were in Ampurias, in Gerona, and in Denia, in Alicante.

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These are the rest of some buildings we can see in those places today.

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The Greeks lived in cities that they called polis.

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Two of the most important polis in ancient Greece were Sparta and Athens.

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Do you know that Athens is the capital city of Greece nowadays?

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days. In the cities there were important buildings. The Acropolis, that means city on the top

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of a hill. In the Acropolis, ancient Greeks built temples. Temples were the places where

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ancient Greeks had the statues of the gods and goddesses. Zeus was the most important

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god. And Athenia was a goddess. They built the temples using different columns. Another

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important place was the agora, or market. This place, the Greeks, started to use coins

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to buy and sell things. In ancient Greeks, people could vote to choose their governors.

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That was the beginning of democracy.

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The first Olympic Games were celebrated also in Ancient Greece.

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They loved sports.

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The Olympic Games were celebrated in the summer every four years in the city of Olympia.

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Winners in the Games had a wreath of laurel leaves.

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These amphoras show us about daily life in ancient Greece, sports and games, or theater.

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Cretes wrote many legends, for example, the legend of the Pegasus horse, or the legend

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of the Trojan horse.

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Here you can see a boy with his teacher, and here you can see the Greek ancient alphabet.

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Here is how. Nowadays, Greek people write and they say

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Taliespera, to say buenos dias, and Antio or Taleme.

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Goodbye!