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1. Since the Greeks (especially the Athenians and Spartans) attached importance to the military training, actualized the physical education and advocated the spirit of valor and tenacity, thus in the war of fighting against the Persians in 5th century BC, the Greeks were so valiant that they defeated the Persians and won the great victory in the battle. After the war, the sports were popularized in Greece in an unparalleled scope, which brought the Olympic Games to its golden age in history. During this time, the magnificent temple of Zeus and the accessorial Olympic Guests House(奥林匹亚迎宾殿)were constructed. That was the most splendid memorial that saw the states of Greek debate Persians. From then on, the Olympic Games became more influential and larger-scale. 2. The triumph of the Greece-Persia war not only made the Greek-states beat back the Persian army’s offensive into westward, securing the independence of the country, but also laid the foundation for opening up of the sea-lane to the Black Sea, establishing its supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean. At the same time, the victory had promoted the prosperity of the slavery economy and culture in Greece in the second half of 5th century BC. Just then, with the constant development of politics, military, economy and culture in the slavery city-states, a large number of slaves were more widely used in all kind of producing departments in society. They produced ceramics, metal wares, textile fabrics, olive oil, wine, agricultural processed-goods, mineral products, and so on, which were incessantly sold to the distant areas in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea by the aristocratic slaveholders. Simultaneously, the slaveholders also carried back the food supplies, livestock, industrial raw materials and numerous slaves. All these resulted in the rapidly flourishing of the handicraft industry, business and external trade in many city-states of Greece. Obviously, the economic prosperity of the Greek society was b