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<h1><span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; text-align: center;">Travel Journal: Ancient Greece</span></h1>
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<h2>I jumped into a time machine and went to Ancient Greece. I recorded most of what happened in my travel journal. I had such a fun and exciting journey along the way!</h2>
 <h6><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Entry #1: Knossos</strong> c. 20th century B.C.</span></h6>
 <h6><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">My first stop was Knossos. I learned that Knossos was the capital of the Minoan civilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I noticed that its </span>structures were similar to the labyrinth that King Minos said to have built.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I passed the palace on Crete (Crete was an island) at Knossos a few times, and when the king wasn’t there I got a chance to go into a few of the rooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a huge palace, the bathrooms, living rooms, and bedrooms were all very elegant throughout the structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were people selling food and a lot of trading was happening along the coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were trading pottery and jewelry made of gold and silver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></h6>
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 <h6><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Entry #2: Mycenae</strong> c. 1600 B.C.</span></h6>
 <h6><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Today I went to Mycenae. Palaces were built on hills and surrounded by gigantic stone walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were many tombs built into the hillsides that I past while I was touring the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw a lot of pottery while I was in town, as well. What I did not notice were very many farms. To me it seem that Greece isnt' all that rich in agriculture. Many people were sailing today, trading goods I think. I'm pretty sure that is how all of these people survived since there wasn't much room for farms. A lot of the homes I saw were plain and simple. Almost all of the families I saw and met owned slaves. </span></h6>
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 <h6><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong>Entry #3: Sparta</strong> c. 1300 B.C.</span></h6>
 <h6><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">When I got to Sparta I saw that there were a lot of women strong and fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Young children were there as well, but I learned that all males were taken by the city to join the military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had to be disciplined to later on be in the Spartan military and serve in the wars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did try some of the famous black Spartan broth; it was a combination of pork broiled in animal blood, salt and vinegar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the Spartan I did meet had lived there their entire lives, never leaving because they were discouraged from traveling, they might encounter ideas dangerous to the stability of the state. There wasn’t any type of music or paintings, pottery, or literature and art because the only art the Spartans liked was the art of war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any other type of art was not respected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></h6>
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