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FANCY THAT!
A water clock uses flowing water to measure time. Either a container is filled with water, and the water is drained out slowly and evenly, or water slowly enters a container. In both cases you can tell how much time has passed depending on which line the water level is at.
One more thing – there were no proper clocks in those days so Greeks used a sundial or a Water clock to tell the time. Doesn’t sound like a problem?
Well, there were nO AlArM cLoCkS either, which means being late for school, which means pUnIsHmEnT EXErCiSeS.
Every. Single. Day.
I am soooooooo late!
Doyoueverwish . . .
your parents had an amazingly cool new car that could drive itself, fly in space and had an on-board chocolate fountain?
Well in ancient Greek times you were lucky if you had anything with wheels on at all! Back then the roads were rubbish and most people did not travel far from home at all.
Favourite mode of transport? Feet. You probably have a pair of those too. Check at the bottom of your legs. They’re those pink things with wiggly bits on the end that smell of cheese.
Aside from foot-power, donkeys were the main mode of transport used by people for local travel and to take produce to market. Long journeys were made by boat to avoid the mountains.
There weren’t many wheeled vehicles, although mules were used to pull two-wheeled carts and four-wheeled wagons. Horse-drawn chariots were used in warfare in Mycenaean times, but later on they were only used in sport.
There is a record of a chariot race at the Olympic Games in which 40 chariots took part. The winner was the only charioteer who managed to survive the race!
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