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776 BCE
The Olympics
When The Olympics first started it was a festival for the god Zeus, later they added a footrace that was two hundred yards then additional events were added and the Olympic Games became a regular event. -
508 BCE
The Athens
The Athens would teach their sons rhetoric, also the schools would teach logic, reading, writing, arithmetic,and music. They developed gradually over decades from monarchy to aristocracy, aristocracy to oligarchy, oligarchy to democracy. -
499 BCE
The Persian Wars
the city-state Miletus was rebelling against the Persian rule and the people of Miletus asked the Greeks in other city-states help. And the Athenians crossed the Aegean Sea to Asia Minor and they conquered Persian-controlled city of Sardis. -
478 BCE
The Golden Age of Athens
The Athens and Sparta worked together during the war but once the war was done the went their separate paths, the Spartans hurried back to keep a eye on the helots and Athens were beginning to build a strong empire. -
470 BCE
Early Greek Philosophy
Some Greeks had asked some philosophical questions like: How can we understand the world around us? Where did Earth come from? How did the universe start? and: Why is life so full of troubles? -
469 BCE
Socrates
Socrates grew up during the Golden Age of Athens, he saw the Golden Age crumble during the Peloponnesian War and fought as a young man. Most of his philosophical ideas came from his student Plato. -
431 BCE
Sparta
Sparta men have to do twenty three years of military training when The Athens only do two years of military. When a Sparta women had a boy child the would check if the boy was healthy and if they looked like they would grow into a a strong warrior and they would stay alive. -
430 BCE
The Peloponnesian War
The war began in 430s B.C. but it broke out in 431 B.C., this war was very devastating war, it continued for more than twenty five years and it eventually put a end to the Athenian Empire. -
427 BCE
Plato
Plato was one of the students of Socrates and he is the one who we go Socrates philosophical ideas from him! He started a school called the Academy, the school lasted for nine hundred years. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
Aristotle's dad was a doctor in the court of the king, Amyntas the third and Aristotle was a student of Plato. he stayed at Plato's school for twenty years before he stared his own school, called the Lyceum.
