Movie on Greeks Part 3

Today in Mr. West Civ class, we continued to watch the movie on Greeks. We came to the part in the video where they talk about how the Olympics came about. On Mount Olympus in 776 B.C. were the first Olympics. A couple years later, anyone could participate in the Olympics. Isagorous was competing against Cleisthenes in the Olympics. He knew this was going to be hard so he went to the Spartans for help on defeating him and then he could take over Athens. He was able to defeat Cleisthenes so he had to take everything and everyone and leave Athens. He was ostracized, which means that they threw him out of the town. Now Isagorous was in charge with the Spartans. The commoners in 508 B.C. staged a revolution against Isagorous and the Spartans, who were forced to surrender. This was the first recorded revolution. After this, they turned back to Cleisthenes.