Ancient Greece

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  • 776 BCE

    Olympic Games

    This festival was used to honor Zeus. The games include a foot race, javelin, long jump, & other games.
  • Period: 499 BCE to 479 BCE

    The Persian war

    In this bloody war the Greeks where notorious by having 6000 Persians dead but only 192 Greeks dead
  • Period: 479 BCE to 404 BCE

    The golden age of Athens

    This 75 year period, which ended at the Peloponnesian war in 404 BC
  • Period: 469 BCE to 399 BCE

    Socrates

    Socrates was born in 469 BCE. He taught many students including Plato, Aristotle, Crito and many others. He used the Socratic method which is a question asking method which leads to realization. He died drinking Hemlock
  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    The Peloponnesian war

    This war was fought between Sparta and Athens. To block the Spartans, the Athenians built a wall around the city but leaving an opening for their navy. The Spartans burned the crops and starved from their ignorance
  • Period: 429 BCE to 327 BCE

    Plato

    Plato was Socrates' star pupal and even recorded a lot of his teachings. He opened an academy in 387 BCE, it lasted for more than 900 years.
  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

    He was called the "great philosopher" in the Middle Ages. Aristotle is probably the most known philosopher in the world
  • Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the great

    Alexander was a young boy when his father died. At 20 people thought he was easy to over throe but little Al had some tricks up his sleeves. He conquered a lot of Persia, costal Mediterranean cities, the middle east, and Egypt.
  • 335 BCE

    Alexandria

    This library had more the 700,000 important scrolls and it was still growing. Through centuries of robberies, sand storms & fires none of the scrolls have been recovered.
  • Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE

    The Hellenistic period

    This 50 year period spanned to morn the death of Alexander The Great.