The Olympics
By: Caitlin Voos
Why is the Olympics important?
The Olympics were important because, it honored the God Zeus it also was a religious festival.
How did the Olympic Games contribute to society?
The Olympic games contributed to society because sometimes it was a funeral ritual.
Fun Facts 😜
#1 - The Olympics were held 4 years
#2 - At first the Games only had 210 dash.
#3 - Later on the Games included longer runs, wrestling, javelin, and jumping.
#4 - In 393CE, the roman emperor Theodosius 1 banned the games until revived in 1896 at the Athens.
#5 - The competition was open to free Greek men, and they could only come from city-states to compete.
#6 - After Rome Greece in the 140s BCE the Games lost the realigious significance.