Rome conquered Greece

In 230 B.C.E to 146 B.C.E, the Romans started to take over the Greek world and the Asia
Minor. As they fight to the death, they sold all of the women to slavery, and destroying the city.
The war lasted 300 years as they left with the most valuable sculptures.When Octavion
becomes emperor with his victory over Mark Antony and Cleopatra (of the line of
Greek Ptolemaic Pharaohs) the period of peace which follows is known as PaxRomana, the longest period in history. They killed all of the men, and the ones that
were still alive, they were worked to death.

The Peloponnesian War

The Peloponnesian War remodeled the entire Greek state. The Athenian empire, which was a
stronger side prior to the war, was reduced to a mere vulnerable slave of Sparta. After the war,
Sparta was the ruling state of Greece. The war destroyed the economies and brought poverty
and sufferings to the state. Athens could never gain its lost prosperity that it was proud of, prewar.The main reason for the launch of the war was the Spartan fear of Athens's growing power
and prosperity. Athens rule over most of the Mediterranean region along with Greece/Hellas, 50
years preceding the war, instigated the war.
According to Thucydides, that after Athens became the leader of the Delian League, they
became the supreme power known as the Athenian Empire. They nearly drove out the Persians
from their regions of Aegean and occupied supremacy over a large number of territories. Athens
naval power was also growing day-by-day endangering the bordering states.
During the Persian war in 480 BC, Athens power had grown by leaps and bounds and with the
help of its allies continued its attacks on the Persian territories of Ionia and Aegean. Athens also
constructed walls around its empire to save them from Spartan land attack, when the Persians
fled Greece. This enraged the Spartans, who took no action at that time.
In 459 BC Athens took advantage between the Megara and Corinth war siding with Megara.
This helped them gain a foothold on the Isthmus of Corinth. This resulted in a war, known as the
'The First Peloponnesian War' fought between Athens and Sparta, Corinth, Aegean and other
states. At the end of the war, however, Athens backed out from Greek mainland, due to an
enormous attack by the Spartans. A thirty years treaty was signed between Athens and Sparta
in 446 BC.The Thirty Years peace treaty weathered its first experience when Samos, an Athens
ally, rebelled. At that time a Spartan interference, could have resulted into a huge war, but the
Spartans along with its allies decided not to intervene. The revolt was crushed.
The second reason of the war was, after Athens made an alliance with Corcyra, Rhegium and
Leontini, the naval power in un-destroyable. Corcyra was Corinth's enemy. This endangered
food supply to the region to the Peloponnese city. Regarding this point, the Peloponnesian War
was a trade war. The Corinth, encouraged the Spartans to take up arms, backed by Megara and
Aegean who had unwillingly became an Athenian ally.
Further instigation was strict sanctions Megara, in spite of being an Athens ally. These
sanctions forbade Megara of having any economic transactions with Athens. Known as the
Megarian decree this was the last straw, and became a major contributing factor in the war.

Olympics
The Greeks invented athletic contests and held them in honour of their gods. The Isthmos game
were staged every two years at the Isthmos of Corinth.The Pythian games took place every four
years near Delphi. The most famous games held at Olympia, South- West of Greece, which
took place every four years. The ancient Olympics seem to have begun in the early 700 BC, in
honour of Zeus. No women were allowed to watch the games and only Greek nationals could
participate. One of the ancient wonders was a statue of Zeus at Olympia, made of gold and

ivory by a Greek sculptor Pheidias. This was placed inside a Temple, although it was a towering
42 feet high.The games at Olympia were greatly expanded from a one-day festival of athletics
and wrestling to, in 472 BC, five days with many events. The order of the events is not precisely
known, but the first day of the festival was devoted to sacrifices. On the Middle Day of the
festival 100 oxen were sacrificed in honor of a God. Athletes also often prayed and made small
sacrifices themselves..
On the second day, the foot-race, the main event of the games, took place in the stadium, an
oblong area enclosed by sloping banks of earth.
At Olympia there were 4 different types of races; The first was stadion, the oldest event of the
Games, where runners sprinted for 1 stade, the length of the stadium(192m). The other races
were a 2-stade race (384 m.), and a long-distance run which ranged from 7 to 24 stades (1,344
m. to 4,608 m.).The fourth type of race involved runners wearing full amor, which was 2-4 stade
race (384 m. to 768 m.), used to build up speed and stamina for military purposes.
On other days, wrestling, boxing, and the pancratium, a combination of the two, were held. In
wrestling, the aim was to throw the opponent to the ground three times, on either his hip, back
or shoulder. In ancient Greek wrestling biting and genital holds were illegal.

The city of Alexandria

The city of Alexandria was found by a grid system by the one and only Alexander The Great. He
demanded roads be built right away and make them extra wide to turn chariots around with
ease. When Alexander died,Historian Strabo had demanded that there will be temples, public
buildings and theaters be built right away. These buildings are right in front of the mainland
where the main office, gardens, and a gymnasium lay. But as they built these buildings, he
demanded that the the Temple of Poseidon, the Theatre and naval dockyards stay in front of
the main office as well.