A first book in American history with European beginnings . ll parts of Greece viedwith each other in running, wrestling, boxing, throwingthe discus and in four-horse chariot races. To win atthe Olympian games was to be honored for life. GREECE AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT Always a graceful people, the Greeks wore loose flow-ing garments which added to the grace and dignity oftheir movements whether they were performing solemnreligious rites or merely walking about the market-place. In early, early times people who wanted to write hadto express their ideas by drawing pictures. Then, longbefore the
A first book in American history with European beginnings . ll parts of Greece viedwith each other in running, wrestling, boxing, throwingthe discus and in four-horse chariot races. To win atthe Olympian games was to be honored for life. GREECE AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT Always a graceful people, the Greeks wore loose flow-ing garments which added to the grace and dignity oftheir movements whether they were performing solemnreligious rites or merely walking about the market-place. In early, early times people who wanted to write hadto express their ideas by drawing pictures. Then, longbefore the days of Alexander, an Eastern people, calledthe Phoenicians, brought to the Greeks an alphabet the Greeks improved to suit their needsand used it in writing. Our own alphabet comes fromtheirs. The Greeks wrote poetry, plays, philosophy, his-tory, and wonderful stories of the deeds of their heroes,many of which we still read and study. Some of theirsculpture, painting, and literature has never been of to-day can only imitate A Greek Ship. The Greeks were not only an artistic people; theywere adventurous and brave. Since so large a part oftheir peninsula country was coastline, many of themcould see the shiny sea from where they lived, and theyfelt the call of the sea. They built great ships and sailedabout the Mediterranean, sometimes for adventure, some-times to carry on trade with other countries. And as 3 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY time went on, they founded colonies on neighboringshores, in southern Italy, Sicily, the isles of the JEgeeuiand in Asia Minor. The people of Greece were not, as you might think,united as we are in the United States. Steep mountainridges and long arms of the sea divided the country intomany valleys and plains, so that small groups of peoplewere separated from each other and formed independentkingdoms or states. One of the strongest of these stateswas Athens, where each man had a voice in making thelaws and ruli
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