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Fun Facts about
Ancient GreeCE
By Maliah Bricking
Everyone reading this knows at least something about
Latin. After reading this article, though, many of you will
now know about Latin’s older cousin language, Ancient
Greek. Here are some super fun and sort of random facts
about the Ancient Greek language and culture:
The first democracy was created in
Ancient Greece! Athens was the very
first place to have a democracy.
Specifically, it was a direct democracy,
which means than every citizen got to
vote to make decisions. However, only
men were considered citizens, so
women did not get to vote.
The Olympics were also created in
Ancient Greece. The next time you
watch the Olympics, remember
that it originated with Greek dudes
seeing who was stronger (and
therefore better).
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