Title: The Olympic Games | Ancient Greece
Headings: The Olympic Games
The Olympic Games
The Olympic Sporting Events
The End and the Beginning

Content: The Olympic Games | Ancient Greece
The Olympic Games
776 BC – 394 AD
GREECE
Early History
The Olympic Games began in ancient Greece in 776 BC and lasted twelve centuries before being outlawed by the Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius in 394 AD. The Olympic Games (Greek: Ολυμπιακοί αγώνες, " Olympiakoi Agones ") were and still are history’s most regularly experienced athletic event. Moreover, the Olympic Games which began as a regional sporting event is now an event attended and viewed by billions of people throughout the entire world. In ancient Greece; city states such as Athens, Sparta, Boeotia, Thessaly and more resided side my side throughout Greece and nearby lands such as present day Turkey. The Greek city states were very civilized mini nations, advanced peoples surrounded by barbarian peoples eagerly wishing to take the richness of the Greeks. The Greeks found themselves in constant warfare with these outside barbarian forces and increasingly among themselves. Over time, the threat to the Greeks came primarily from each other. Each city state struggled to prevent neighboring states from overpowering them and destroying their state.