This striking difference in the way Athens and Sparta treated their victorious athletes reflects a striking difference between the states

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At Olympia every four years Olympic games were held in which any Greek was entitled to take part. It is

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The Delphic oracle, the priestess of Apollo, was supposed to have the gift of prophecy. The Delphic Oracle was consulted

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BY THE middle of the twelfth century, Kyoto was no longer the real center of power in Japan. The old

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Toledo falls and this marks the beginning of the end of Islam in Spain. A triumph for orthodoxy The events

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