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A long time ago in Greek Myth there was a story about a Titan named Prometheus. This is how it goes. In Greece there was Titans and their kids the Gods. The Titans ruled over the whole world. The Gods decided they had enough and started a war between the Titans for control over the world. Prometheus, a Titan, sided with the Gods knowing they would win. He was correct, the Gods won. In thanks the Gods made Prometheus benefactor of the humans. After that, a little while later Prometheus decided to test Zeus, the ruler of the Gods. He put beef in ox’s skin and bones in shining meat fat. Then, he offered them to Zeus and Zeus obviously picked the second one. This set up a precedent. A precedent is a thing that tells humans what to sacrifice to
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