Ancient Greece

Philip II

1527 BCE

He was in King of Spain and the King of England when he married Mary Tudor. During his rule, he began the Golden Age, which was a period of cultural growth in music, visual arts, and literature.

Agamemnon

1524 BCE

He was king of Mycenae or Argos, which is thought to be the same area with different names. When his wife, Helen, was taken to Troy, he officially started the Trojan War by ordering the united Greek forced to attack Troy. This created the Trojan War. When he returned from the war, he was killed.

Rise of Tyrants

901 BCE

During the 10th and 9th centuries BCE, monarchy was the main form of government in Ancient Greece. But by 500 BCE many city-states rebelled against the tyrants which began the early form of democracy.

First Olympic Games

776 BCE

The games were originally created to honor the Greek God, Zeus. The first recorded Olympic Games were in Olympia in the city of Elis. The first Olympics was around 500 years old before it was first recorded.

Draco’s Code of Law

620 BCE

A written law code by Draco due to the unjust interpretation of oral law by aristocrats in Athens. The people of Athens commissioned Draco to create a written law code and constitution.

Darius I

550 BCE

He was the third of the Persian kings in the Achaemenid Empire. He ruled during it’s peak. To get to the thrown, he overthrew Bardiya, an Achaemenid monarch. Throughout his rein, he went through many rebellions .

Xerxes

519 BCE

Known as Xerxes the Great, and was king of Achaemenid Empire. He was assimilated by the royal bodyguard, Artabanus. But before his death, he ruled the empire at its territorial apex.

Democracy

508 BCE

It is a form of government where the citizens area able to pick their governing legislation. The word was first found in Ancient Greek political and philosophical thought in the city-state of Athens.

Pericles

495 BCE

He was an important and influential Greek statesman and orator and general of Athens during it’s golden age. Turned the Delian League into an Athenian Empire.

First Persian War

492 BCE

Darius, the son of Cyrus the Great, wants Greece so that he can have their support for the Ionian Revolt. So he invades Greece at Marathon.

Battle of Marathon

490 BCE

The battle took place on the plain of Marathon, between the Athenians and the Persians. This battle was the end of the first attempt by King Darius of Persia to conquer Ancient Greece. It was part of the first Greco-Persian war.

Homer

484 BCE

He is a famous poet mainly known for “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”. Although his works of writing are famous and have had a huge effect on Western culture, not much is known about him.

Second Persian War

480 BCE

The Persian army had a three month march to travel from Hellespont to Therme. The Allied Congress began to defend the Vale of Tempe to block the Persian’s advance.

Battle of Thermopylae

480 BCE

It was a battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and Sparta, during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It was a late response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece.

Socrates

470 BCE

He is a Greek philosopher who is one of the founders of Western philosophy. He was also the first moral philosophers of Western ethical tradition of thought.

Parthenon Completed

432 BCE

The Parthenon was designed by Ictinus and Callicrates in 447 BCE. It was a temple built for the Goddess of Wisdom, Athena, and originally meant to be an idol. It is considered to be one of ancient Greece’s greatest architecture accomplishments.

Peloponnesian War

431 BCE

It was a war between the Delian League and Peloponnesian. The war shifted the power from Athens to Sparta, which made Sparta the most powerful city-state within the region.

Plato

428 BCE

He is thought to be the pivotal figure of Western philosophy. He was taught by Socrates and taught Aristotle. He has also been cited as one of the main founders of Western religion and spirituality.

Catapult

399 BCE

A device to launch an object in great speeds through a long distances without the use of gunpowder. It uses stored potential energy to propel the projectile.

The Academy in Athens

387 BCE

It was founded by Plato and was attended by Aristotle. The school was destroyed by Sulla, a Roman dictator.

Aristotle

384 BCE

He was a Greek philosopher and polymath during Ancient Greeks’s Classical Period. He was taught by Plato. Not much is known about his life.

Alexander the Great

356 BCE

He created an empire that defeated the Persian empire Capital, Alexandria. He spread Greek culture through the east as far as India.

Battle of Chaeronea

338 BCE

A battle near the city of Chaeronea in Boeotia between the Macedonians and an alliance of some of the Greek city-states. The battle was a climax of Philip’s final campaign and it ended in a victory for the Macedonians.

League of Corinth

337 BCE

During war, Macedonia and other Greek city-states would have a common peace and team up to defend on another. This league was created when Macedonia faced the threat of a Persian invasion.