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Torrey Emily T Religion in ancient Greece was very important to their society. Their religion was based on 13 god all with special meaning and all gave explanations for things that may have happened. The 13 major gods were Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Athena, Hermes, Demeter, and Hestia. Zeus was by far the most well known. He was the god of thunder which explained natural weather conditions like storms but he was also the king of gods. The belief in greek mythology lead to the doing of traditional ceremonies and festivals which became a part of everyday life. http://www.museum.upenn.edu/GREEK_World/religion.html

Religion in the Minoan society was important as well as commonly practiced. We know this because the evidence of minion worships of deities and gods are found mostly in Minoan art but was also found on pieces of business like seals. The Minoans had four main divinities three were female but only one was male. This may show that the Minoan society has respect for the women in it society. The three goddesses were The Snake goddess, The Mistress of Animals, and The goddess of Vegetation. These particular goddesses might show that the women in the Minoan society may be more relied on then those in earlier times. The male figure is shown on a seal as a smaller figure then the female deity. This might hint that women were more important than men in the Minoan culture. There is evidence of many human sacrifices outside of Knossos which would imply that the practice of sacrifices to the gods may have been a regularly practiced thing. http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/15.html

Battle of marathon http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/marathon.htm http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/363914/Battle-of-Marathon http://www.livius.org/man-md/marathon/marathon.html The battle of marathon was one of the most important battle in the history of the world. The battle of marathon is an inspirational story not only because it showed all of the world in 490 b.c. that the Persians could be beaten but also it was the inspiration for creating one of the most popular types of races in the world. The battle happened about 25 miles north east of Athenswith the Athenians fighting the Persians. Persia wanted to punish Athens for helping its neighbor Eretria during a battle against Persia**.** Fortunately for Athens they with stood the blows from Persia and won the battle. The Athenians only lost 192 men compared to the Persian loss of 6,400. The victory was a great one and a runner from Athens literally ran himself to death to share the news. His name was Pheidippides. Pheidippides was the reason for the great race today. Originally ran from marathon to Athens runners today follow the great footsteps of Pheidippides in an effort to win.

Mary Gray Phonecian alphabet [|http://www.phoenician.org/phoenician_greek_alphabet.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.phoenician.org/alphabet.htm] [|www.ancientscripts.com/images/phoenician.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.ancientscripts.com/phoenician.html]
 * Eretria and Athens helped Ionia, the Eretrians didn't help the Ionians. 

The picture below shows two gold plates. On them is the Phoenician alphabet. The Phoenician alphabet was the first of its kind. It was the first alphabet were every sound had its own symbol. It had 22 characters all with a different sound and symbol. The Phoenician alphabet was a great success because of this. It was easy to understand, and widely understood, because of trading and all the traveling that was happening at that time. It was distributed among many people from many places. Writing was done by carving the symbols into rock or baked into clay. The Phoenicians’ probably did this to keep it for a long time. As you can see from the second picture below this alphabet is very connected to the alphabet used today. In today’s alphabet the first letter is an A. in the Phoenicians alphabet they have what looks like a sideways A and it is pronounced ‘aleph which is somewhat similar to our letter A. there are a few others that follow this pattern. The Phoenician alphabet has kept for a long time and has affected us today. The Ancient Olympics http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml The ancient Olympics were much different from today’s Olympics. The Olympics were originally created to celebrate the Greek god [|Zues.] They were always held in the city called [|Olympia]. The only athletes that were allowed to compete were male Greek citizens that speak Greek. The main event played, the only event for the first couple of years, was the [|Stadion race]. this is much different from todays olypics because many countrys, that speak all different langueges, and are from around the world, are aloud to participate. also now a days its not to celebrate the gods but to celebrate one thing that the world has in common and that is sports.

3 questions 1. Why is an unexamined life unworthy of living? 2. Why do people try to find the meaning of life? Is it not good enough just to live? 3. if everything comes to an end then we ourselves will too. If no one has any trace or remebrence of us, do we really exsist? FUN QUESTION OF THE DAY
 * ) If an orange is orange and so is a carrot is it possible for a carrot to be more orange then an orange? :)