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1 Tyrone Keys Room 206 11-28-11

2 ANCIENT GREECE SPENDS MONEY THAT LOOK LIKE QUARTERS

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4  Probably the people in each place didn't know that the other ones were also taming chickens. By about 5000 BC, people in China were certainly keeping chickens, and by 3000 BC people in India also had domesticated chickens. They ate the chickens and they also ate their eggs.ChinaIndia  Chickens spread either from India to West Asia by about 2500 BC, and then to Africa. Chicken bones have been found in Egyptian tombs from the Old Kingdom.West AsiaOld Kingdom  Chickens were easy to keep, and small enough to eat in one meal, so you didn't have to worry about the meat going bad. And you could eat their eggs as well. Both the meat and the eggs are good sources of protein.protein  The Greeks and Romans often sacrificed chickens to their gods.sacrificedgods  Another reason for keeping chickens was the popular sport of cock-fighting, which seems to go back thousands of years. You take two roosters and put them in a cage or pit together and they will fight over the territory. People place bets on which rooster will win. Often the loser dies in the fight.  (I seem to have managed to write two different pages on chickens; this is the other one).other one  To find out more about chickens, check out these books from Amazon.com or from your library:  Chicks & Chickens, by Gail Gibbons (2003). Explains where chickens come from, and what they eat, and so on. For younger kids. Chicks & Chickens  A Chicken in Every Pot: Global Recipes for the World's Most Popular Bird, by Kate Heyhoe (2003). Includes a brief history, and lots of recipes for chicken. A Chicken in Every Pot: Global Recipes for the World's Most Popular Bird  Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal, by Margaret Visser (1999). Background on what you eat, including a chapter on chicken. Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal  Food in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diet of Early Peoples, by Don and Patricia Brothwell (1998). Pretty specialized, but the book tells you where foods came from, and how they got to other places, and what people ate in antiquity. Not just Europe, either! Food in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diet of Early Peoples  SIGN IN SIGN IN  LOG OUT LOG OUT

5  encyclopedia  Jump to: navigation, search  The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, located on the Acropolis in Athens, is one of the most representative symbols of the culture and sophistication of the ancient Greeks.  History of Greece This article is part of a series Greek Bronze Age Helladic civilization Cycladic civilization Minoan civilization Mycenaean civilization Ancient Greece Greek Dark Ages Archaic Greece Classical Greece Hellenistic Greece Roman Greece Medieval Greece Byzantine Greece Frankish and Latin states Ottoman Greece Modern Greece War of Independence Kingdom of Greece Second Hellenic Republic 4th of August Regime Axis occupation Civil War Military Junta Third Hellenic Republic History by topic Art · Constitution · Economy · Military · Names Greece Portal v · d · e Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era.[1] Included in Ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the

6 THE GREECE WAY OF LIFE IS BASED ON FAMILY,CHURCH PATRIOSM. ALSO ANOTHER WAY IS TRIBULATION OF SUCCESSFUL RULERS ANOTHER WAY IS THE IVASION OF WARS AND SOMETIMES LEAD.

7  MADUSA WAS LADY WHO”S HAIR WAS MADE OF SNAKE.PLUS IF YOU LOOK AT HER YOU TURN INTO STONE.

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