Common and bottlenose dolphins are frequently spotted around Jersey's coastline! 🐬Jersey has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world — the sea can go back nearly 1.5km at low tide! 🌊The Jersey Royal potato has its own Protected Designation of Origin — just like champagne! 🥔Jersey is the sunniest place in the British Isles — about 2,000 hours of sunshine every year! ☀️Jersey has its own parliament called the States Assembly — one of the oldest in the world! 🏛️Mont Orgueil Castle has been standing for over 800 years — since around 1204! 🏰Jersey has its own language called Jèrriais — a form of Norman French still spoken by some islanders! 🗣️The Jersey cow is one of the oldest dairy breeds in the world — dating back over 300 years! 🐄Common and bottlenose dolphins are frequently spotted around Jersey's coastline! 🐬Jersey has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world — the sea can go back nearly 1.5km at low tide! 🌊The Jersey Royal potato has its own Protected Designation of Origin — just like champagne! 🥔Jersey is the sunniest place in the British Isles — about 2,000 hours of sunshine every year! ☀️Jersey has its own parliament called the States Assembly — one of the oldest in the world! 🏛️Mont Orgueil Castle has been standing for over 800 years — since around 1204! 🏰Jersey has its own language called Jèrriais — a form of Norman French still spoken by some islanders! 🗣️The Jersey cow is one of the oldest dairy breeds in the world — dating back over 300 years! 🐄

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Ancient Greeks

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1 Ancient Greece (c. 800–146 BCE) was made up of independent city-states, the most famous being Athens and Sparta.

2 The ancient Greeks invented democracy — a system of government in which citizens vote on decisions.

3 Greek thinkers including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle laid the foundations of Western philosophy, science and mathematics.

Discover the ideas, achievements and city-states of ancient Greece.

Ancient Greece was one of the most influential civilisations in human history. From around 800 BCE, Greece was not one unified country but a collection of independent city-states, each with its own government, culture and army. Athens and Sparta were the most powerful. Athens gave the world one of its greatest ideas: democracy — a system where citizens could vote on important decisions. The Greeks were extraordinary thinkers: mathematicians like Euclid and Pythagoras, scientists like Archimedes, and philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle laid ideas that still shape our world today. The Greeks also gave us the Olympic Games (first held in 776 BCE at Olympia), epic poetry, theatre, and architecture. Many English words, including ‘democracy’, ‘mathematics’ and ‘theatre’, come directly from Greek.

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