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<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a> The Olympics of today are modeled after the games of ancient Greece. Greeks believed the games were a good way to train young men to be warriors. The Olympics also grew out of the competition between Greece’s city-states, which usually operated independently from each other because the rocky, mountainous land separated them. What will happen when Chester can only get home if he helps one Greek win an Olympic race?<\/p>\n Greek Games includes the following topics: Chapter 2: Alexander The Great<\/strong> Alexander the Great includes the following topics: Chapter 3: Roman Legions <\/strong> Roman Legions includes the following topics: Chapter 4: Pompeii Perishes <\/strong> Pompeii Perishes includes the following topics: <\/a><\/p>\n America was founded on the ideas practiced by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Follow Chester the Crab as he helps a runner in the Olympics, visits a theater with Poseidon, goes to war with Alexander the Great, enlists in the … Continue reading
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\nChapter 1: Greek Games <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWhere was Poseidon\u2019s adventure?
\nWho invented democracy?
\nWhich part is the Parthenon?
\nWhen was the first Olympic moment?
\nWho made all the world a stage?<\/p>\n
\nAncient Greece has small, independent communities on different rocky islands in the Mediterranean Sea. One young, brash leader succeeds in uniting those cities and pushing the Greek empire across the hot sands of Persia and into India. How great will Alexander be?<\/p>\n
\nWho was Alexander the Great?
\nHow did Alexander unite Greece?
\nWhen did Alexander conquer Egypt?
\nHow did the Greeks beat King Darius?
\nHow great was Alexander\u2019s empire?<\/p>\n
\nThe Roman Empire rises to power after Alexander’s death and a gradual split of the Greek empire into pieces. Rome’s control is based on its powerful army, which carries Roman ideas and building techniques across the Mediterranean Sea and Europe. Chester finds that he can still walk some of the roads the Romans built hundreds of years ago…<\/p>\n
\nWho wants to be a legionnaire?
\nWas Rome always a republic?
\nWhat people did Rome conquer?
\nWhy were Roman arches important?
\nQuid novi? (or, “What’s new?”)<\/p>\n
\nOne reason we know so much about Roman art and life is that the explosion of a volcano buries a whole Roman town, preserving its mosaics, sculpture, and paintings that the culture proudly displayed. But the Roman gods cannot save the people of Pompeii…<\/p>\n
\nHow did rich Romans live in Pompeii?
\nHow did Roman government work?
\nWhen did Vesuvius blow up?
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