Olympia is in the Peloponnese, the large peninsula forming the southwest of Greece. The ancient site is about 10km east of the regional capital of Pyrgos, surrounded by beautiful, fertile countryside.
Olympus is in Central Greece, on the Greek mainland, the dominant peak of a still-wild mountain area.
Germany annexed Austria, then the Sudetenland, and then invaded Czechoslovakia. This made Germany disliked by the allied powers. Germany invaded Poland for Danzig and then that is what pushed France and Britain into war with Germany. Later, Japan reached a stalemate in China, so they expanded their sphere of influence into the pacific. Japan invaded British Malaysia and joined the axis and signed the tripartite pact with Germany and Italy leaving Japan at war with France and the U.K. Japan also bombed Pearl Harbour making the U.S declare war on Japan, Germany then declared war on the U.S, I am not sure why they did this even though they did not have to.
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After the withdrawal of Soviet troops 25 years ago, Afghanistan plunged into a civil war causing further destruction. ... The invasion had left behind a devastated country, with more than one million Afghans being killed and around 5.5 million displaced.
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Currency
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It's not certain which ancient civilization was the first to start using coin money. It's known that Ancient Greeks, Ancient Chinese, and Ancient Lydians began using coins around the beginning of the 8th century BC, at the approximately same time. There's a possibility that Pheidon, king of Argos, a Greek city, was the first ruler in the Mediterranean who officially set standards of weight and money. The picture below shows an engraving of Pheidon introducing silver coinage.
