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The translation of which book into the languages of European peoples contributed to the creation of their national script and literary language?

This book is the Bible. So, in 350, Bishop Ulfilas translated a significant part of the Bible into the Gothic language, which laid the foundations of the Gothic literary language. Since the Gothic language did not have words for many Christian concepts, Ulfila had to not only invent new words, but even develop a special alphabet.

With the aim of translating the Bible into Armenian, the monk Mesrots Mashtop at the turn of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries invented an original script so well adapted to the transmission of Armenian sounds that it has survived almost unchanged to this day.

In order to translate the Bible into Slavonic, the Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius created the Slavic alphabet around 863. In 1522, the first part of the Bible was published in a German translation by Martin Luther.

Trying to make the translation accessible and understandable to as many compatriots as possible, Luther used the variant of the language, which, in his opinion, was not characterized by regional limitations, and thereby laid the foundation for the subsequent development of a common German literary language.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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The biggest award an athlete can receive is an Olympic gold medal. Did you know that the idea of holding the Olympic Games is over 2500 years old? According to Greek legend, the Olympic Games were organized by Hercules, the son of Zeus.

There is evidence that the first Games were held in 776 BC. e. on the fields of Olympia. They were held once every 1 years for a millennium, until in 4 AD. e. the Romans did not cancel them. The ancient Greeks considered the Games so important that they measured time by the intervals between them. Four years were called the Olympics.

The Classical Olympic Games in honor of the supreme god Zeus have been held in Greek Olympia every four years since 776 BC. e. Wars stopped during the Games. Only free male citizens were allowed to participate in them, who competed in running for short and long distances, in pentathlon (javelin throwing, running, jumping, discus throwing, wrestling), the so-called pankration (fistfight and wrestling), as well as in chariot races. Philosophers and poets took part in the Games, presenting their works there. In 394, the Roman emperor Theodosius banned them as "demonic games." They were resumed in 1896 in Athens (Olympic Games of our time) on the initiative of Baron de Coubertin. Both men and women participate in them. Since 1924, the Winter Olympic Games have also been held. The number of Olympic sports is constantly growing.

Games were the embodiment of the Greek ideal that the body, like the mind and soul, should be developed. Nothing could prevent the Games even if there was a war, it had to stop. 15 centuries later, the Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin had the idea of resuming the Olympic Games. In 1894, at his suggestion, an international congress of 15 states was convened. This congress unanimously recognized the need to revive the Games and hold them regularly, once every four years. Two years later, the first modern Olympic Games were held in a rebuilt stadium in Athens, Greece.

Today's Games include sports that did not even exist in antiquity, such as basketball, water polo, football, cycling, shooting, field hockey. The modern Olympic Games are organized by the International Olympic Committee. And each country has a National Olympic Committee, which is responsible for its country's participation in the Olympic Games.

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