Ancient Greece

The Greek Olympics

776 BCE

The Olympics started in Ancient Greece. The events included are javelin, discus throw, long jump, Pentathon, which is wrestling with very few rules, footraces.

Aeschylus

525 BCE

Aeschylus was born around 525 BC. He wrote plays. In 474 BC he wrote about the Perisan Wars. It was sponsored by Perclies. He also wrote the trilogy The Gresteia that is know famous. He in total 80 plays in total. But today we only still know 7 of them.

Athens uses democracy for the first time

508 BCE

Cleisthenes introduced the Athenians to democracy. they call him the Father Of Athenian Democracy. It was one of the greatest achivements of Greek history.

Sophocles

495 BCE

Sophocles was born in 495 BC. When he started doing plays he was an actor. He played a leading role about the Persians victory at Salami's. Sophocles stated writing plays and then became Aeschylus' rival even though he was thirty years younger.

Euripides

485 BCE

Euripides was born around 485 BC. He wrote around 80-90 plays. He did not really receive any awards. He was very popular with the Athenians.

Socrates

470 BCE

Socrates was a Greek philosopher. He would go into the towns the ask people questions. When the person he was asking he would respond again with another question. We get the Socratic Method from this. Socrates lived from 470 to 399 BC.

Aristophanes

445 BCE

Aristophanes lived from around 445 BC to about 380 BC. his plays made fun of statesman like Pericles, other playwrites like Euripides and philosophers like Socrates.

The Peloponnesian War

431 BCE

The Peloponnesian War was fought between the Peloponnesian League and Athens. It began in 431 BC and ended in 404 BC. The Peloponnesian War ended with the Peloponnesian League winning the long war. Athens had a strong navy so they tried to avoid land attacks by hiding behind the city walls. When they eventually came out from behind the walls the strong Athenian navy had already attacked many costal cities of the Peloponnesian League. In the end the Athenians lost.

Alexander the Great

333 BCE

Alexander became king in 336 BC when his father died. He immediately began conquering city-states and countries. He began his conquering with The Persians and defeated them. Then he moved his way to India. After he was done conquering everything he went back to Babylon and decided to begin to , make improvements to everything he conquered by adding buildings such as gymnasiums, schools, and public buildings. Alexander dies in 332 BC . But all the land he conquered remained Greek.

Alexandria and The Hellenistic Period

323 BCE

During the Hellenistic Period one of the main things that happened was the building of the Library Of Alexandria. At the beginning of this library there were 200,000 scrolls. Alexandria was a model town for the Greeks. This town included a gymnasium, schools, and theatres. The library was a place where a lot of people learned for years. The town was located in Egypt.