In World War Two, Italy first attacked Greece, but Greece defended themselves. Then Germany attacked Greece and then Greece lost the war. Greece’s most popular period is The Golden Age. In 336 B.C. Alexander the captain of the Greek army, defeated a huge area between Greece and India.

One of the most important holidays in Greece is Easter. On the midnight of New Year’s Eve, people eat a special cake with a coin in it called vasilopitta. On Ochi Day people remember that in 1940, Greece’s leader said “ochi” (no) to the Italian dictator.

These are the Greek letters, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, and omega. In ancient Greek, Zeus was the king of the gods. Greece is on the continents of Asia and Europe.