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1.

Since

the

Greeks

(especially

the

Athenians

and

Spartans)

attached

importance

to

the

military

training,

actualized

the

physical

education and advocated the spirit of valor and tenacity, thus in the war

of fighting against the Persians in 5th century BC, the Greeks were so

valiant that they defeated the Persians and won the great victory in the

battle.

After

the

war,

the

sports

were

popularized

in

Greece

in

an

unparalleled scope, which brought the Olympic Games to its golden age

in

history.

During

this

time,

the

magnificent

temple

of

Zeus

and

the

accessorial

Olympic

Guests

House(

奥林匹亚 迎宾殿

)

were

constructed.

That

was

the

most

splendid

memorial

that

saw

the

states

of

Greek

debate

Persians.

From

then

on,

the

Olympic

Games

became

more

influential and larger-scale.

2.

The

triumph

of

the

Greece-Persia

war

not

only

made

the

Greek- states

beat

back

the

Persian

army

’

s

offensive

into

westward,

securing the independence of the country, but also

laid the foundation

for

opening

up

of

the

sea-lane

to

the

Black

Sea,

establishing

its

supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean. At the same time, the victory

had

promoted

the

prosperity

of

the

slavery

economy

and

culture

in

Greece in the second half of 5

th

century BC. Just then, with the constant

development

of

politics,

military,

economy

and

culture

in

the

slavery

city- states, a large number of slaves were more widely used in all kind

of

producing

departments

in

society.

They

produced

ceramics,

metal

wares,

textile

fabrics,

olive

oil,

wine,

agricultural

processed- goods,

mineral products, and so on, which were incessantly sold to the distant

areas

in

the

Mediterranean

and

the

Black

Sea

by

the

aristocratic

slaveholders.

Simultaneously,

the

slaveholders

also

carried

back

the

food supplies, livestock, industrial raw materials and numerous slaves.

All these resulted in the rapidly

flourishing of the handicraft industry,

business

and

external

trade

in

many

city-states

of

Greece.

Obviously,

the

economic

prosperity

of

the

Greek

society

was

based

on

the

great

fortune made by massive slaves. Without the slavery system in Greece,

the Silver Age of the Olympic Games would not have come.

3. However, the slavery society was founded on the base of a great

deal of oppressed slaves

’

exploitation thrown by the slaveholders. The

slaves

made

enormous

fortune

for

the

society

as

well

as

the

various

wealth

for

the

Greek

city-states.

Meanwhile,

the

annexing

was

appearing,

especially

the

cruel

oppression

and

exploitation

of

the

slave-owner class had taken stirred up the slaves

’

continuous resistance.

Many of them either went into exile or held armed uprising, which gave

a

heavy

hit

to

the

slavery

society

of

Greece

and

made

it

fall

from

flourishing summit to decline inch by inch. During the Peloponnesian

War,

the

whole

Greece

had

suffered

a

bigger

loss.

Large

numbers

of

slaves escaped both from

Sparta and Athens. Only in the year of 413

BC,

there

were

more

than

20,000

slaves

holding

the

mass

breakout