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Goforth Link: [|Phoenician Alphabet] =====

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The native name for the language was (dabari-m) Pōnnīm/Kana'nīm, which means "Punic/Canaanite (speech)" The Phoenician Alphabet originated in the 11th century B.C. The alphabet spread around to the Mederitranean, the southern parts of the Iberian Peninsula, Malta, and southern France and Sicily. The first known inscriptions from the Phoenician alphabet were first found in 1000 B.C. Some of the letters in the Phoenician are the same as some in the Hebrew alphabet. The alphabet has 22 letters.======

[|Sparta's military] [|Sparta] [|Spartan Army]

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In Sparta, the main education that people were taught was to produce soldier citizens and to have a large powerful government. The military was well disciplined and the Spartans believed in a life of discipline, simplicity and self denial. Sparta was the opposite of Athens because in Sparta people were taught to fight and in Athens people were taught about peace and war. In the Spartan Society they have their own military caste so they can focus and concentrate on war and politics. There is a weakness that they are afraid of: the people turning against their military leaders. They also had to double the land size of Spars to be able to make room for the army. A few years after 376 the Spartan army recieved a terminal blow, while they were overwhelmed by the smaller number of Thebans.======


 * Primary Source- Ancient Greek Art (Parthenon)**

The Parthenon was built in Athens to show their wealth and power. It was dedicated to the greek goddess Athena Parthenos. The temple was served as a monument for her because the Athens thought that she helped the Greeks conquer in the Persian Empire and the Persian Wars. The Greeks started to build the Parthenon in 448 B.C and it was completed in 432 B.C. It was built as part of the Acropolis in Athens, where it served two main purposes. First, it was a monument for Athena so there was a statue of her built and it was also part of the state's treasury. Tax money from the Delian League was used to pay for the building. The Parthenon was built by two main architects, the main designer was Iktinos and the main builder was Callicrates.




 * Greek Olympics**

The first of the Olympics started in Athens, Greece. Greeks would invented athletic [|contests/events] and hold them in honor of their gods,. The Isthmos games were staged every 2 years at the Isthmos of Corinth. The Pythian games took place every four years in Delphi. The most famous games were in Olympia which honored Zeus and those games happened every four years. No women were allowed to watch the games and only Greek nationals could participate. Overtime the Olympics expanded. At the very start the games were a one day festival consisted of wrestling and athletics. But in 472 BC, the games lasted five days. The first day then was devoted to sacrifices. On the middle day of the festival 100 oxen were sacrificed in honor of a god.Athletes prayed and even made small sacrifices themselves. On the second day, the foot race, which was the main event in the games took place. On other days wrestling, boxing and the pancratium took place.


 * 3 Questions for Test**

1. Why didn't the government like his way of teaching? Why did they think he was corrupting the youth in Athens?

2. Why did Socrates decide not to write anything down or leave anything behind?

3. How did the three philosophers impact the people in Greece?Was it a good impact or not?