Why The Olympics Should Be Banned Persuasive Essay

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The Olympics is a time everyone looks forward to. It gives nations a chance to fight for bragging rights by putting forth their best athlete in hopes of winning a medal, or wreath in this case. Olympics have been around for centuries and they have always proven that putting athletes from different nations in an arena to fight makes a good show. As it should because who doesn't love a good old chariot race.

The Olympic Games back then aren't that different from the Olympic Games we have today.Back then they had all sorts of games, Chariot races, horse races, wrestling, discus, running, javelin, shot put, and the long jump. Having all of these games made it so that nations can send athletes that had trained for an excruciating 10 months …show more content…
Because of this truces were called so that people could participate and watch the Olympics in peace. God forbid a nation were to break that truce. If a nation broke a truce they would be banned from participating in the Olympics and would have to pay a heavy fine. That is another way the Olympics helped ancient civilizations, if a nation were to pick on another nation/break the truce every other nation would have their back in fighting back against the nation that had broken the truce. That is what happened to Sparta in 420 AD, they were cast out of the Olympics and had to pay a fine. One last way the Olympics helped ancient civilizations was by giving them a measure of time.It says in passage three that the Olympics went on the lunar calendar, the 28 day moon cycle. It helped them date things in catalogs.

In conclusion, The Olympics helped the ancient civilizations by giving nations a chance to communicate with each other. The games also gave ancient civilizations a measure of time. So in all the Olympics gave us a since of time and cooperation. but i always wondered, what the world would have been like if the Olympics Games never
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