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Olympic Games By:Anna Ignarski,Elizabeth Principe,Alli Kunkel

The Greek city-states that took part of the Olympic games were Sparta,Athens,Corinth,Argos,Megara.Every ones goal was to beat Sparta.If one was to win a game they would receive a simple crown made of leaves.The games were held in Olympia every 4 years.The games were part of a religious event in Honor of Zeus.The scared truce of the game was 1 month before the games stared there was peace.They had this truce because the city-states were always fighting.

The ancient Greece people were huge sports fans.The Greece athletes competed in different activities.The games started when a sacrifice happens for the god ZEUS.The games were so religious that if anyone cheated they would never be allowed to play the Olympic games again.They would play stuff like weightlifting, penthanon,and wrestling.They would play weightlifting,they would lift up something,and see wich person could pick up the heaviest thng.For wrestling they would takle eachother.A lot of the games that they played we now play to this day.They would do running and 3 foot races,and stuff like javelin.For the javelin you would throw a stick with a pointy tip at the and end so it would stick in the ground.The object of the game was to see how far you can throw it.The Olympic games started in 776 B.C. to 393 A.D.  When Hercules would bring in the olive leaf,that would mean that the games are beginning! The women could not play or even watch the Olympic games.the games were played for the gods. they mostly played the games for there god Zeus.Every one from around Greece came to watch!!The Olympic games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia. The modern games began in 1896!mostly the men that had a lot of money and didn't work played the games.Greek boys even played the Olympic games. on the first day of the Olympics sacrifices of grain,wine,and lambs to Zeus.

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