This is Angela Odell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.

A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical world view perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 66 of real cool history for kids.

This episode is for Amos Hardesty who wanted to hear a story about the ancient world

in honor of his birthday on January 20th.

Happy birthday Amos. Here is your special episode.

You may be at least somewhat familiar with the story of Esther in the Bible.

Esther was a young Jewish woman who was crowned the Queen of Persia.

God placed her in a powerful position at a specific time and for a specific purpose.

He is really good at doing that. Anyway, the Persian Empire was massive and powerful.

And right across the Aegean Sea from where the Persian Empire was located

was the Greek Empire. Now, I've told you the story about the ancient Greeks and the Mycenians

and about some of the wars that they fought. That was back in episode 22, I believe,

of real cool history for kids. Well, in this episode for Amos, I'm going to kind of pick

up where we left off with that story. Even though Greece was considered a united empire,

it did not have one king like the Persians did. Instead, each Greek city state had its own king.

Athens and Sparta were the two main city states. These two city states were different in almost

every way and they fought about everything. Athens was democratic and voted on their laws.

They elected learning and deep thinking. They studied the stars and they excelled in mathematics.

The Athenians were philosophical. Plato, one of the most famous philosophers of the ancient world,

came from Athens. On the other hand, the Spartans were really, really rough and tough in tumble.

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