the city was a rival of Athens\n\nSOURCES PLEASE
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It's hard for textbooks to say anything nice about the Spartans. Take up any world history textbook and read; you'll find that the Spartans were "an armed camp," "brutal," "culturally stagnant," "economically stagnant," "politically stagnant," and other fun things. The reality, of course, lies somewhere behind the value judgements. Greek history does, after all, come down to us through the eyes of the other major city-state in Greece, Athens, a bitter enemy and rival of Sparta. The two represent diametrically opposed concepts of the Greek polis and its relations with other city-states; they also represent diametrically opposed concepts of the individual's relationship to the state. Despite all the rhetoric in Athens and in the European historical tradition, we should keep in mind that the Spartans believed they lived in the best of all Greek worlds, and many of their Greek neighbors agreed with them. The rivalry, then, between Sparta and Athens, which would erupt into a disastrous war for Athens, was also an ideological and cultural rivalry.\n\n   The single, overwhelming fact of Spartan history is the Messenean War. In the eighth century BC, Sparta, like all her neighbors, was a monarchy with a limited oligarchy. In 725, however, needing land to feed a dramatically growing population, the Spartans marched over the Taygetus mountains and annexed all the territory of their neighbor, Messenia. The Messenians occupied a fertile plain and the Spartans found themselves with more than enough land to support themselves and their newly conquered people. However, like all conquered people, the Messenians did not appreciate the loss of their independence. With the help of the city-state of Argos, the Messenians revolted in 640 BC. This was no ordinary revolt, for not only did the Messenians almost win, they almost destroyed Sparta itself.\n\n   Here's how the situation stood for Sparta at the end of the Messenian revolt. Almost defeated, controlling the territory of a subject population that outnumbered their population ten to one , it was only a matter of time before this subject population would overrun their conquerors. So the Spartans invented a new political system as dramatically revolutionary as Athenian democracy in the north: they turned their state into what amounts to a military state.\n\n   The Messenians were turned into agricultural slaves called helots . We describe their lives as the life of a "serf," for they worked small plots of land on estates owned by Spartans; part of their produce went to the master of the estate, and the remainder went to the helot farmer and his family. There's no question that the life of the helots was a miserable life. Labor was long and hard and the helots always lived right on the border of subsistence.\n\n   But Spartan society itself changed. The military and the city-state became the center of Spartan existence. The state determined whether children, both male and female, were strong when they were born; weakling infants were left in the hills to die of exposure. Exposing weak or sickly children was a common practice in the Greek world, but Sparta institutionalized it as a state activity rather than a domestic activity. At the age of seven, every male Spartan was sent to military and athletic school. These schools taught toughness, discipline, endurance of pain (often severe pain), and survival skills. At twenty, after thirteen years of training, the Spartan became a soldier. The Spartan soldier spent his life with his fellow soldiers; he lived in barracks and ate all his meals with his fellow soldiers. He also married, but he didn't live with his wife; one Athenian once joked that Spartans had children before they even saw the face of their wives. The marriage ceremony had an unusual ritual involved: at the end of the ceremony, the man carried his wife off as if he were taking her by force (this did not
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Areopolis, since areo-, from the Greek god of war, Ares, refers to Mars in the same way geo- refers to Earth.\n\nI'd then nickname it "The Red City."
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Yes, I went three years ago.  It was great!  We spend a day in Athens and then sailed to Rhodes, Mykonos, Santorini, Crete and Epheses (sp?) in Turkey.  The last day we drove around the mainland and had a wonderful time taking in the local customs (and the local food, which was excellent).
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Education & Reference - Yahoo! Answers \nAnswers is a new way to find and share information. ... The political and Social sides of the Minoans? ... inventions,and show the positive and negitive ...answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?link=list&sid=396545015&cp=4&tp=800\nGreece - From the Minoans to Alexander \nSocial and political organization. a. collection of city state monarchies. b. ... would weaken both sides, offering the possibility of invasion. IV. ...www.tnstate.edu/tcorse/h121/greece.htm
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Well, I'm willing to believe it's just a coincidence.  But it does make for some interesting background on the games.  Everyone seemed to make a bigger deal out of the Portugal-Angola game than the others, not entirely sure why...  But this gives me a good idea for my own question... :)
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Pella, Macedonia, in late July, 356 BCE (not that I was there, of course!) on the same day on which the famous Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was destroyed by fire. His father, Philip II of Macedon, was a brilliant ruler and strategist. His mother was Olympias, princess of Epirus, daughter of King Neoptolemus. Olympias was initiated into the cults of Dionysus and Orpheus. She was often jealous, vindictive and very protective of Alexander.\n\nhttp://www.1stmuse.com/frames/\n\nI'm not sure "where" his mother was when she gave birth, in Pellas, but I have also heard he was prematurely born (how far along she was, I don't know that either). Was she at the temple??
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If you want an answer as to how most of the houses look like then it's not good looking at greek islands, or old architectural plans from 400BC\n\nAthens concentrates almost 50% of the population.\nThessaloniki has about 15-20%. Another 15% is spread between 10 small cities at the most. And the rest is spread all over greece.\nSo, if you see few photos of the places with most of the population you will get a general idea.\n\nLook at a photo of athens:\nhttp://www.hoffmann.caltech.edu/placesVisited/Aug05/images/View%20of%20Athens%20from%20Acropolis.jpg\nathens by satellite:\nhttp://offline.area3.net/wartime/img/athens.jpg\n\nThessaloniki:\nhttp://users.otenet.gr/~cpnchris/thessaloniki.jpg\nThessaloniki satellite:\nhttp://www.greeklandscapes.com/maps/thessaloniki.html\n\nPatras (3rd most populated city)\nhttp://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/6/63/400px-Patra-panaxa.jpg
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1.jupiter\n2.1896 - Athens, Greece\n3.206
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I entered "Conquests of Alexander the Great" in the search box under your question and here is the first hit:http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Renault/boy.mp.html
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The minoans lived on islands so their fleets defended their cities.\n\nThe public square was the agora the acropolis is the temple in Athens.\n\nYour third questions is a tough one you need to define ancient. I would go for Persia
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It was a hill in Athens that was the site of 3 temples.  The procession preceding the Olympics went up there and they placed a woolen cloak on a statue.\n\nIt also acted as a defensible position in times of war.\n\nI found no reference to imply that it was a center of democratic meetings.
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track originated in greece. It is spoken about in greek mythology as athletic competition. Some of the common events were discus, javelins, and other strength events. Others seemingly became popular later. In greece, it was always popular to be stong and fit.
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if u are doing something about Greece, then why u don't try to see the paralell between the ancient olympics and the modern ones.  Here is the games from ancient Greece that are still being practiced now:\nAncient ones\nBoxing \nEquestrian events \nChariot racing \nRiding\nPankration \nPentathlon \nDiscus= disk\nJavelin \nJump \nRunning \nWrestling\nRunning \nWrestling\n\nModern ones:\nSummer sports:\n\nAquatics\nArchery\nAthletics\nBadminton\nBaseball\nBasketball\nBoxing\nCanoe / kayak\nCycling\nEquestrian\n   Fencing\nFootball\nGymnastics\nHandball\nHockey\nJudo\nModern Pentathlon\nRowing\nSailing\n   Shooting\nSoftball\nTable Tennis\nTaekwondo\nTennis\nTriathlon\nVolleyball\nWeightlifting\nWrestling
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Berlin, Germany hosted the Olympics in 1936.  Anything dated 1937 or 38 must be phonies.\n\nThere are any number of sports memorabilia dealers and experts out there.  Here are some related to Yahoo.
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Hey - go to www.Athensi.com and check it out, it has a ton of events.  Also, there are tons of student organizations and different venues for bands.  Bands play here all the time, and our volleyball and hockey teams are super fun to see.  There are tons of things to do in Athens... and you don't need a car to get anywhere - just bring your bike because we have an awesome bike path.  Come on down, and if you're looking for part-time work once you get here, apply at the bookstores, they all hire people at the beginning of the school year.
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Check this site:\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.activemind.com%2FMysterious%2FTopics%2FAtlantis%2Findex.html
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Greece was more powerful in the ancient world. Uniting East and West for the first and only time. There are still Greek speaking tribes in India(albe it only a few thousand) beacause of Alexander the Great. He crossed the Indus river and even founded present day Karachi, in Pakistan which was of course then named Alexandria.\nPersia was decimated by the Greeks and Greek soldiers took Persian wifes to spread the Greek culture. Another Greek city is Marsala, presently in France and known as Marsaille. Tactically they were brilliant and ***The Battle of Salamis was a testament to intelligence and tactics of the Acient Greeks***please look this up as it's a great account of a historical sea battle of the where the Persian Fleet in record numbers was decimated by the vastly inferior Greeks in terms of numbers and weaponry/ships.\n\nFrom India to France, no empire spread as far or ever will again.\nCrossing so much land on foot and conquering it all then succumbing to either poisoning or an illness. \n\nYour last three lines say it all...they had it all and the ancient greeks challenged, took it, burned the capital, and were accepted when they conquered generally, and made it better and spread their own vision to more of the world and this is evidenced today in numerous ways...it has to be greece easily in this one...\n\negypt vs greece would have been fairer...\n\n***additional - just read your additional comments - very good lol...