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7HCC - Historical Inquiry - A Significant Event: First Olympic Games

First Olympic Games

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Online encyclopaedias are great for short, concise and correct information. It may be best to access these articles from the Online encyclopaedias page through the Hale portal. Ready made citations are available.



 
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  • Britannica - Olympics - Ancient Olympics

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It is important to provide evidence of using a variety of reliable resources. Use the online Reference Generator available through the Portal to create your citations. Make sure you alphabetically sort them afterwards.

A sample bibliography for 3 resources suggested on these pages would look like:

Olympic Games 2019. Britannica School. Retrieved 20 May 2019, from https://school.eb.com.au/levels/middle/article/Olympic-Games/276182#205927.toc

Olympic Games 2019, Welcome to the Ancient Olympic Games, accessed 20 May 2019, <https://www.olympic.org/ancient-olympic-games>.

Stewart, R 1996, The original Olympics, Wayland, Hove.