Before the golgen ages power point by Emily

GREECE

GOLDEN AGE

Before the golden Age

The ancient Greeks who didn't know as much as we know today created many myths in order to

explain everything-thus,the Gods- ruled the world.

Olympian Gods

●Zeus●Poseidon●Hades●Hestia●Hera●Ares●

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●Apollo●Athena●Aphrodite●Hermes●Artemis●Hephaestus

Regimes in Archaic Greece

●Greeks leave their villages and gather to towns●The desire for a better life and peoples' struggles brought many changes to the regime:●Royalty●Aristocracy●Tyranny●Democracy

Aristocratsnoblemen

Richtyranny

PeopleDemocracy

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King

The evolution of regimes in ancient Greece

Solon

The citizens of Athens voted about important matters and elected a number

of people to execute their decisions.(Democracy)

Clesthenes (The establisher of Democracy)

Created the parliament of fifty(500).All Athenian citizens took part in the

gatherings and voted the laws themselves.

Olympic Games

●Common belief in Gods and common athletic games brought Greeks together●Greeks gather in Olympia to prove their abilities to running,disk,javelin,wrestling,chariot races.●Historians used to measure time before Christ on the basis of Olympic games.●The first Olympic games were held in 776b.c.

The Olympic games were devoted to Zeus