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During the Persian Wars, the Battle of Thermopylae (480 bce) took place in central Greece near the Thermopylae mountain pass. Leonidas led the Greek soldiers, which were largely Spartans. Leonidas and a small group remained behind to stop the attack and were beaten, despite the fact that the main army had been sent into retreat.
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B an investigative journalist exposing corruption
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Tea act: A tax on tea; angered the colonists
Stamp act: Colonists would have to purchase a "stamp" to place on public documents i.e newspapers, playing cards, almanacs, etc.
Intolerable acts: a series of laws passed by the British Government that restricted the colonist's freedoms. They were passed in response to the Boston Tea Party.
Sugar Act: A tax on sugar, this upset the colonists because they felt that the taxes were unfair, as they lacked representation in congress.
Proclamation of 1763: Prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, a desire for better farmland led many colonists to defy this act.
In Ancient Greece, city states were independent and often in competition with one another so they had different gods and goddesses as their representatives.
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The gods and goddesses of the Ancient Greeks had human qualities and vices.
So, when the city states came into their own as power states in Greece, while retaining their religion common among each other, they adopted their own city gods that represented what their city stood for the better way.
Thebes' god was the god of wine and theater, showing the status of the city as the cultural capital for a long time. Similarly, Sparta was the city of the God of war, and they were a military society.
