See Greece
In Modern day USA on a helicopter tour
Greece has had many of impacts on the modern world. Some of them are architecture, theatre, and the Olympics. These are all used frequntly all over the world. Also, Greece invented them all. We will be flying around many places in the United States to see these impacts.
Architecture
In the United States of America, there are many buildings that use Greek architecture. This is a picture of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It uses the Greek columns. Other places that use this type of architecture in the United States of a America is Washington, D.C., which uses the most Greek architecture out of all the cities in the United States of America. Examples of this are the Supreme Court, Capitol Hill, and many more.
The Olympics
The Olympics are games held every 4 years all over the world in different places each time. people train and come to play in the games and compete. They have many different games that people compete in. The Olympics originated in Olympia, Greece in 776 bc. They were originally created to honor the Greek god, Zeus. The Olympics were really important, so countries made truces in between war so that the people from different countries could come and compete in the Olympics. The Olympics were suppressed in 394 ad by Theodosius I. The idea of the modern Olympics were created by Pierre de Coubertin, in 1894. There were many more games added, and since then, the Olympics have been played every 4 years all over the world.
Theatre
Theatre was invented in 700 bc, in Athens, Greece. It was originally part of a festival called the Dionysia, which honored the Greek god, Dionysus. Tragedy was a form of theatre, that is about suffering. It was invented in the late 500s bc. Comedy was another type of theatre. This is a drama with a happy ending invented in 450 bc. Now, in modern day, the idea of theatre is also used. Theatre is now very popular all over the world.
Schedule
10:00 get on helicopter
11:00 arrive in Philadelphia and see the museum of art
12:00 get on helicopter
2:00 arrive in New York at the Olympic stadium
4:00 arrive back in Philadelphia and see theatre at the Merriam Theatre
5:00 get back on the helicopter
6:00 arrive back and leave