History

Ancient Greece

From 7000 BC farmers used to live there. By 1950 BC, they knew how to write using hieroglyphS. Around 1600 BC civilization spread to the Greek mainland. They are called the Myceneans and they had city-states.

Byzantine Greece

The Great Emperor Justinian reigned from 527-565. In that time Romans' influence grew smaller and the Greeks' grew stronger.

New Greece

Britain, France and Russia wanted Greece to become a monarchy as well. They sent a prince that became the king of Greece in 1833.

Greece became a republic in 1924. In 1940, the Italians invaded Greece but they were quickly pushed back.

Mythology

Gods and Goddesses

Category Name Characteristics
Gender Activity
Olympian Gods Zeus Male God of the Gods
Poseidon Male Sea, Horses
Hades Male Underworld
Ares Male War, Weapons
Hera Female Marriage, Women, Family
Apollo Male Sun, Music, Poetry, Healing
Artemis Female Hunt, Wilderness
Athena Female Wisdom, Military Victory
Aphrodite Female Beauty, Love
Hephaestus Male Fire, Blacksmiths, Crafstmen
Hermes Male Herald of the Gods, Proctector of Thieves, Orators and Travellers
Dionysus Male Wine, Insanity
Other Major Gods Demeter Female Agriculture
Hestia Female Home, Hearth
Persephone Female Spring, Queen of Underworld
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