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.
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 | |