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Today in western civ we talked about the bad storm we had over the weekend.  Mr. schick showed us the damage at his house and told us everything he had to do to clean. For the rest of class we worked on our group projects. 
  • In ancient greece you could only compete in the olympics if you were a:
  • Greek male
  • free citizens
  • not a criminal
  • and whose city states agreed to participate
  • Any social class

  • Orsippos,  a general from Megara
  • Polymnistor, a shepherd
  • Diagoras, a member of a royal family from Rhodes
  • Alexander I, son of Amyndas and King of Macedonia 
    Democritus, a philosopher
    I also started to work on the essay.

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