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334
Alexander Conquers the Persians
Died at age 32 from bad fever, Victory gave Alexander control over Anatoliain. In 3332 B.C. victory at Gaugemia ended Persians power. In 326, Soldiers got to Indus Valley but after 11 years and 11,000 miles, they turned back home. -
Period: 334 to
Acient Greece
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431
Pelopennesian War (All Battles)
Two city states began, Athens had the stronger Navy. Pericles strategy was to avoid land battles with the Spartan Army. -
477
Athens Golden Age and the Rule of Pericles
Drama, sculpture, poetry, philosophy, architectecture, and science all reached new heights. Pericles had three goals. 1.) to strenghten Athenian democracy 2.) to hold and strenghten the empire 3.) to glorify Athens -
546
Persian Wars- Persians conquer Anatolia
Greeks had long been settled there. Persians conquered area -
546
Persian Wars: Marathon
26 miles from Marathon to athens. Greek army arrived in Athens not long after. When persians sailed into the harbor, they found city heavily defended. -
Jan 1, 624
Draco takes power in Athens
He was a law giver that had replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court and therefore they believed him to be a good leader for Athens. -
Jan 1, 700
Homer Writes his Epics
These were poems written because it was the "mass media" of the time his epics had a huge impact on todays literature. -
Jan 1, 720
Sparta dominates Messinians
Roughly around 720 B.C. it continued the rivalry between Acheans and Dorians that was initiated by the return of the Heracleidae or the Dorian invasion -
Jan 1, 1300
Trojan War
The greeks fought the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband (the king of Sparta) and the Greeks climbed out of the wooden horse that they built as a peace tready to the Troy's -
Solon takes power in Athens
He was given power by his fellow citizens because they had believed that he had the wisdom to sourt out there differences -
Cleisthenes takes Control of Athens
Alcmaeonidae overthrew their leader Hippias and Cleisthenes came into power after Isagoros was the leader and beat Cleisthenes in an "election" but Isagoros had to flee Athens therefore putting Cleisthenes into power -
Persian Wars: Thermopylae and Salamis
Darius and Great sons and succesor, Xepes, assembled an enormous invasion force to crush Athens. Some Greeks even fought on the Persian side -
Delian League Forms
Greek city states formed an alliance called the Delian League. League members continued to press the war against the persians for several more years. -
Philip of Macedonia takes control of Greece
Philip the second became king,though only 23 years old. Proved to be a brilliant general and a genius politician, he organized his troops. -
Minoans Develop Civilization on the Island of Crete
A bronze age civilization that flourished and was reffered as "the first link in the European Chain" and was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th Century
