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Benavides Benavides: Link: [|The Phoenician Alphabet and Language]

The Phoenician alphabet, or the //(dabari-m) Pōnnīm/Kana'nīm//, had 22 letters, was formed from the Proto-Canaanite language, and uses many of the same letters as in the Hebrew alphabet. Before the 15th century, the Phoenicians used cuneiform to record important events. Their spoken language originated in the 11th century BC in modern-day Lebanon, Syria and Israel. It became widely popular all over the Mediterranean, probably because it was so easy to learn. Instead of a symbol for each word, there was a symbol for each sound. The language was spoken until the 1st century BC.

Alexander the Great Links: [|Alexander the Great Wikipedia]

[|Alexander the Great] [|Alexander the Great geocity]

Alexander the Great, or Alexander III of Macedonia, is said to be one of the greatest military generals in history. He's the son of Phillip II, who had helped to unify the city-states of Greece. His family believed that they were descendants of the Greek god Hercules. He was taught by Aristotle, was a very hardworking student, and was very ambitious. It is rumored that, as a boy, he would get upset at the fact that his father had done all the work for Greece, and left him with nothing else to do. This became untrue, however, as Alexander went on to expand Greece, and actually create colonies and cities in the places he conquered. He was not always mean, since he was gracious and lenient towards the empires he had fought against. And since he had repeatedly defeated Persia, Asia Minor and Syria thought of him as a hero. He ruled for about a dozen years, before he died of sickness on the journey back from a conquest.

Ancient Greek Sculptures This sculpture is of the Charioteer of Delphi. It is said to be one of the greatest surviving works of Greek sculpture, and was made around 470 BC. It had most likely originally had a chariot and four horses, since it's a statue of a charioteer. It still holds the reigns to its chariot. It was sculpted to celebrate the victory of a chariot team. They had won the [|Pythian Games]. When they found the sculpture it was split into three different parts, and it's possible that this had been done in ancient times, to protect the statue from looters. The sculpture has a colemn look on its face, because Greeks considered feelings to show weakness. Thus, a solemn look meant strength, so this showed that the chariot team was strong.

[|The Charioteer of Delphi]

Link: [|Olympic Games]

The ancient Greek Olympic games were an important event among the Greeks. The men who won the games were considered heroes by their neighbors and friends. The Olympics today, though, aren't as important as they were in ancient Greece. Also, only free men who spoke Greek could enter, and the games were always held in one place. Some of the actual games were the same, such as [|boxing] and [|running]. Most of the events were different. They had [|discus throwing] and [|chariot racing], which was the most important.