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776 BCE
Olymipcs
The Olympics started off as a festival to honor Zeus. Later they added a footrace and other games. If you won then you would receive a wreath of olive leaves and great honor. -
500 BCE
Athenian Government
People got the right to participate in the government and Athens later made their government a democracy. -
495 BCE
Pericles
He was a leading citizen of Athens who repeatedly elected as a strategoi or a generals. He was an amazing public speaker who usually convinced crowds. -
479 BCE
Salamis
Athens had just burned down and the Athenian army and navy rammed into Persian ships and attacked them with soldiers on the boats,and they ended up winning. -
Period: 479 BCE to 404 BCE
The Golden Age
During the Golden Age Athens had the first historians,they made great pottery and developed science and medicine. -
469 BCE
Birth of Socrates
He grew up in the golden age and helped fight in the Peloponnesian war. He studied ethics and taught it to random people in the streets. -
445 BCE
Aristophanes
He was a play writer who wrote comedies that made fun of statesmen and philosophers . -
Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE
The beginning of the Peloponnesian War
The Athenian army refused to meet the Spartans and they hid behind the walls that they built. The Spartans burnt all the corn and had to retreat. -
404 BCE
The End of the Peloponnesian war
A plague swept Athens and many Athenians died. The Athenians tried to invade Sicily and surround the Spartans . The Athenians lost the battle and even more lives were lost -
399 BCE
Death of Socrates
He refused to break the law, he was convicted with a giant vote and was sentenced to death. He was forced to drink hemlock a kind of poison and died slowly.
