Great Thinkers

Many great thinkers have impacted America's society and their way of doing things today. Some of these great thinkers who have influenced America are Smith, Wollstonecraft, and Montesquieu. They all benefited the American society with their ideas and beliefs. Smith said that he thought government should give us freedom in business, this concept is used today in business. The government lets companies such as Nike; and Baby Phat, do what they want with their designs and materials they make the product with. The government doesn't get involve in business and what the company decides to do what their products, unless it is hazardous to the citizens. Wollstonecraft, she thought that women should have an equal right to educated like men do. Society as adapted this belief for centuries now. Today if you walk in a school you would find girls and boys sitting in a class mixed together, being taught the same thing, nothing less or nothing more. Montesquieu had a theory that the best way to protect liberty was to divide the various functions and powers of government among three branches:

-legislative
-executive
-judicial
and each section would serve as a check on the other two, an idea that we call checks and balance. This is used in the American federal government.

dear Cleo Cheever,
I heard you that you were going to finally use your time machine to go and visit the medieval times of Europe and I wanted to give you some advice and suggestions.
The best thing to do is to go in the mind of a nobleman; you should get a job in government and buy a chunk of land. Get married to a knight's daughter and show the noblemen new and more efficient ways of building. Explain to them that bathing and taking care of their personal hygiene can keep you living longer. I wish you the best of luck!

yours truly,

Te'Kara

Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra had her plans for Egypt, she wanted to win back the lands that Egypt once held in Syria and Palestine. She wanted to Julius Caesar's help because Rome was the strongest power in the Mediterranean. She became romantically involved with Mark Antony, a Roman general and had been Caesar's friend. He moved to Alexandria with her.

They got married and had three children together - twins Alexander and Selene, and a son Ptolemy. Even though she was in love she didn't forget her place as the ruler of Egypt. She learned how to speak Egyptian for political reason, she wanted to win back lands that Egypt had once held in Syria and Palestine, she even went to war with her brother to become the official ruler of all Egypt. Cleopatra was complex, but was a very good leader.

Pentathlon- Acient Greece Olympic Sports

In the Ancient Greece Olympic Games there was one called Pentathlon. The Pentathlon is a five-event combination of the discus, javelin, jumping, running and wrestling.

DiscusAncient Greeks considered the rhythm and precision of an athlete throwing the discus as important as his strength.

Shaped like a flying saucer, the discus is made out of stone, iron, bronze, or lead. Size varied on weather it was the boys division or men's division, not expecting the boys to lift the same weight as the men.

Javelin

The javelin was a man-high length of wood, it had a sharpened end or an attached metal point. It had a strap that the hurler's fingers attached to its center of gravity, which increased the exactness and distance of a javelin's flight.

Jump

In this sport the athletes would used lead or stone jump weights shaped like telephone receivers to further the length of their jump. The weights were held in front of the athlete during his jump, and forcibly thrust behind his back and dropped during his descent to help propel his body further.

Running

There were 4 types of races at Olympia. There was the stadion, which was the oldest event of the Games. Runners sprinted for 1 stade, 192 miles, or the length of the stadium. The other races were a 2-stade race or 384 miles, and a long-distance run which ranged from 7 to 24 stades or 1,344 m. to 4,608 miles.

And if these races weren't enough, the Greeks had one particularly brutal event which we lack. There was also a 2 to 4-stade or 384 m. to 768 m. race by athletes in armor. This race was extremely beneficial in building the speed and stamina that Greek men needed during their military service. If we remember that the standard hoplite armor; the helmet, shield, and greaves, weighed about 50-60 lbs. I would think you can imagine that muscle aching event between the candidates.

Wrestling

Like the modern sport, an athlete needed to throw his opponent on the ground, landing on a hip, shoulder, or back for a fair fall. You would have to pin your challenger to win a match. Biting was not allowed, and genital holds were also illegal. Attacks such as breaking your opponent's bones were permitted.

This concludes the Pentathlon of the Ancient Greece Olympic Sports, hope you learned some valuable points in this piece.