Because Greece was taken over by the Romans. The Romans canned the games. Because Greece was taken over by the Romans. The Romans canned the games.
Religious bigot Emperor Theodosius I banned non-Christian festivals in a 391 CE edict. The Olympic Games were a festival of Zeus, and so came under the ban.
You had to be 7 years of age or older to compete in the Ancient Greek Olympics.
The oldest recordes the Olympics was recorded in 776 BCE.
Ancient Greeks were very serious about the Olympics that even when they are in the middle of a war,they will actually stop what there doing and go and play in the Olympics!
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What were the five ANCIENT games that were played in the olympics in 2010
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The ancient Olympics were stopped because Christians considered them to be pagan festivals. They were ordered to be stopped and as Christianity spread, even the temples were destroyed.
The ancient Olympics stopped because there are now more people that are modern than ancient and people will get fed up having to watch old sports and the Olympics will lose their career
The Ancient Olympics stopped roughly 2500 years ago and the modern Olympics did not start until the late 1800s. Therefore there were no Olympics in 1014 and thus no location for them. If you meant to ask where the 2014 Winter Olympics would be, that would be Sochi, Russia.
Around 776 BCThe Ancient Olympics started in 776 BC. Then they stopped and they started the modern summer Olympics in 1896. The winter Olympics started in 1924. Then the youth Olympics (Summer and winter) started in 2010.
In the Ancient Olympics the competitors were nude.
they ancient Olympics begun to honor their gods
The Olympics is an Ancient Greek festival.
the diffrence between modern and ancient olympics is that it was not as safe and many were killed in ancient olympics
Theodosius I, Emperor of the Roman Empire, banned the Olympics in 393 AD. The next time the Olympics were held was in 1896.
They didn't "think" of it. It evolved from the funeral games of local heroes, principally Pelops, after whom the Peloponnese is named.
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