Blog Day Twenty-Six: Sub and Video

Today in class we had a sub. For our classwork we had to watch a video about Greece and take notes I wrote down that Themistocles was one of the greatest military generals. Then the video gave a lot of information about Cleisthenes. Cleisthenes was born into one of the richest families in Athens, an aristocratic family. He was born in 570 BC. He was born into the lifestyle that would most likely never want the people to rule themselves, but Cleisthenes thought it wouldn't be a bad idea. I also found it surprising that the life expectancy at birth was less than 15 years. This was most likely because there was no waste collection or sewage in Athens, so disease could spread fast. Another thing I learned was that the capes of the soldiers were red to hide the blood that would be splattered onto it during battle. The last thing was that the first Olympic Games started in 776 BC. Around 40,000 people would come and watch the games, which is a crazy amount of people coming to Greece. Today was a good class, even though Mr. Schick was not here.