Examen de Inglés de Extremadura (PAU de 2015)

Ancient Olympic Games

The Olympic Games (Olympia, "the Olympics" also "the Olympiad") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC. They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in 393 AD as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the State religion of Rome. The games were held every four years, or olympiad, which became a unit o…

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Freguesia

Freguesia é o nome que tem, em Portugal e no antigo Império Português, a menor divisão administrativa, correspondente à paróquia civil de outros países. Trata-se de subdivisões dos concelhos e são obrigatórias, no sentido de que todos os concelhos têm pelo menos uma freguesia (cujo território, nesse caso, coincide com o do concelho), exceto o de Vila do Corvo onde, por força do artigo 86º do Estatuto Político-Administrativo da Região Autónoma dos Açores, essa divisão territorial não existe.

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Zeus

Zeus (Zeús,; Modern, Días) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of the Indo-European deities such as Indra, Jupiter, Perun, Thor, and Odin.

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Sparta

Sparta (Doric Greek:; Attic Greek) was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon, while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.

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Cynisca

Cynisca or Kyneska (born c. 440 BC) was a Greek princess of Sparta. She became the first woman in history to win at the ancient Olympic Games.

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