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A normal day in Ancient Greece was based around the agora, acropolis, and the Parthenon. The agora was the market/ meeting place. Here people could trade or buy products such as some of the main exports, olives and grapes. People would also conduct business here. In the corner of the agora there was a bulletin board where people could post notes or messages to the public. The acropolis was located next to the agora. The acropolis was a large hill on which the pantheon was perched upon. Athens was home of the biggest acropolis in Ancient Greece. Quickly it became know as "Thee Acropolis". The pantheon was a very large and sacrat church. So because the partheon was sacerate so was the acropolis. Now let's take a closer look at the Agora. To get the food to sell, the Greeks would have farmers. The farmers would raise the crops and bring them to the agora to sell and trade. The farmland was in the eastern part of Greece. So of the foods that Greeks ate a lot were fruits, fish, bread, and wine. They even dipped their bread in wine for breakfast. They used the main exports olives and grapes to make olive oil and wine. The houses in Ancient Greece were based around if you are wealthy or if you were poor. For every one the houses were kind of small and simple. For the poor type of community the houses were only one to two room homes. The walls were made of sun-dried bricks. The floors were made of the hard rock ground. Now for the wealthier crowd they had larger houses. They had houses kind of like ours now a day. Now a day’s people want they're houses to be homey and comfortable. Well, in Ancient Greece the wealthier groups would have houses very comfortable. All of the houses of the wealthy were based around courtyards. Another one of the rooms in a house was a bedroom. There would be two bedrooms and the beds were kind of the same as a couch. Wooden Chests to store they're clothes. There was a room named gynaikon. This room was only for women. The reason for this is the room was to work on weaving and spinning, also to hang out with they're friends in. Not only friends were in there but also female relatives. If a male would go in the gynaikon they would get punished. They had two rooms for slaves. One room was for woman, and one room was for men. The rooms were small, with not a lot of furniture. The woman slave's rooms were always around the females’ room and the men slaves were always by the men's room. Enough room is the Andron. This room was kind of like the gynaikon. This room was only for the men in the family. This room was to also hang out with friends and business people. This room was also for symposia or how we would call it "drinking parties". Woman could not go in this room unless if they were slaves serving the guy or special female entertainers. The kitchen was a room to cook the food. The best pots and pans were used for entertainment. The bathroom was a room to take showers and go to use it in. They had bathtubs filled with water from a well and then heated over a fire. Some of the wealthier people had they're own bathroom they would just have one. They also had a workroom. This room was used for making shoes or jewelry. The slaves some times worked in here also. There was a storeroom. This room was filled with large jars for storage. These jars would be filled with supplies to make or get food. The courtyard was for entering and worshiping. This room would some times contain an altar to worship the goddess. Some times there would be a well in the courtyard for getting water. Some time the woman would work on there weaving out in the courtyard.

The clothing on ancient Greece is way different clothing that we have. The Greek men wore kind of short tunics. They are called chiton. Then over that they ware a himation. That was wrapped all around they're body if it was cold outside because they are usually outside for the whole day because they have jobs and work a lot in ancient Greece. The himation can go over your head two. Did you know that the soldiers wore different clothing so everyone can look the same so they look like a team/crew? The soldiers wore a cloak made from thinker cloths then other clothes they had in ancient Greece. The thicker cloth was called chamys. It was fastened to they're neck with a clasp. Most of the boys went with no shoe in the summer. The men wore shoes because they do way more jobs then boys do. The clothing they mostly wore was a tunic and that was made from two regular pieces of clothes. How they made clothing fro the poor is they used coarse cloth that is made from animal hair. Know that must be pretty soft. Greeks did not wear complicated garments made from shapes pieces of cloth sewn together.