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492 BCE
Darius 1 invades Greece
The first Persian invasion of Greece had its immediate roots in the lonian revolt, the earliest phase of the Greco-Persian wars. However, it was also the result of the longer-term interaction between the Greeks and Persian. -
480 BCE
The battle of salamis
The battle of salamis was a naval battle between Greek city states and Persia. they fought in September 480 BC in the straits between Piraeus and salamis, a small island in the Saronic Gulf in Athens, Greece. -
480 BCE
Battle of Thermopylae
The battle of Thermopylae was fought between an alliance of Greek-city states, led by king Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian empire of xerxes in over the course of three days. -
451 BCE
Thirty years peace between argos and sparta begins
the Peloponnesian war was fought between the Greek-city states of Athens and Sparta. Before the war after the Persian war Athens and Sparta had agreed to a thirty years of peace. -
429 BCE
Death of pericles
Pericles strategy against Sparta was to fight them at sea not land. Sparta had a stronger army but, Athens had a stronger navy. The people of Athens gathered in the city. They had the long walls to the port that enabled them to get supplies. This strategy may have worked but, a plague struck Athens. And a lot of people died last, Pericles died with them. -
409 BCE
Greeks defeat persian marathon
The battle of marathon took place in 409 B.C, during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens. -
404
end of the peloponnesian
the Peloponnesian war remodeled the entire Greek state. The Athenian empire, which was a stronger side prior to the war, was reduced to a mere vulnerable slave of Sparta. After the war, Sparta was the ruling state of Greece. -
441
Athens invades Megara
Pericles and an army of five thousand infantrymen supported by fifty ships returned to Euboea and subdued the entire land.
