Navigating Web Pages - Olympic Games Site
Type in the URL: http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html
Note: Be careful to type
it exactly as above, ie use the same case.
Open a word document and save it as Olympics.
Now minimize the word document screen.
Place your cursor on the following picture.
Right click on the picture.
From the menu activated when you clicked on the right mouse
button, choose the option to copy the picture.
Maximize the word document.
Click on paste and the picture should now
be on your word document.
You are now going to enter the following on the word
document, filling in the blanks using information from the site. You are also to
copy and paste any pictures that follow:
| The
ancient Olympic Games were primarily a part of a religious festival in honor of _____.
The festival and the games were held in ___________, a rural sanctuary site in the
western Peloponnesos. The following is a
picture of a coin that was minted by Philip II of __________ ca. 350 BC to commemorate his
victory in the horse race at Olympia. |
The following is a model of Model of the
Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, where the first games were held as part of religious
festivals honoring Zeus. The Temple of Zeus is near the center. |
The athletes were all _______ citizens of the
city-states from every corner of the Greek world. The ancient Olympic Games began in the
year ___ BC, when _______, a cook from the nearby city of Elis, won a foot race ______
feet long. From 776 BC, the Games were held in _________ every ______ ________
for almost 12 centuries.
A series of bronze tripods have been found
at Olympia, some of which may date to the 9th century BC. |
| The first modern Olympics were held in _________, Greece, in _____.
The man responsible for its rebirth was a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who
presented the idea in 1894. His original thought was to unveil the modern Games in
1900 in his native _______, but delegates from 34 countries were so enthralled with the
concept that they convinced him to move the Games up to 1896 and have Athens serve as the
first host. |
Now click on the map link.
| The Olympic Truce was instituted by the city-state of ____ to protect
against military incursions which interrupted the Games. |
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grove |
athlos |
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diaulos |
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dolichos |
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dromos |
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himantes |
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hoplite |
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keles |
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Nike |
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pale |
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pantheon |
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pugme |
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tethrippon |
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Using the Harvard system of referencing, add the following
reference for this Internet site.
