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334
alexander conquers the persians
Alexander 35000 soldiers across the helllespont into anatolia. alexander won that battle. -
431
peloponnesian war
athens had a stronger navy but sparta had a stronger army.spartans marched into athens and burned their food feilds. the second year of war athens cought a plaugue killing one third of the population including pericles. they fended off sparta for sevrel more years. in 421 the declared peace. in 425 b.c athens sent over 20000 soldiers to the island of sicily. they suffered a crushing defeat. sparta eventully won the war. -
461
athens golden age and rule of pericles
athens becoms the leader of the delian league and moves its headquarters to athens. athens then uses military force against members who challanged its authority. -
500
cleisthenes takes control of athens
introduced further reforms. brake up power of the nobility by organizing citezens into 10 groups based on where they lived. -
546
persian wars- persians conquer anatolia
the greeks where at anatolia for a long time but the persians conqured it. -
Apr 4, 621
draco takes power in athens
draco develped a legal code based on the idea that all athenions rich and poor wereall equal under the law. -
Apr 4, 725
sparta dominates messinans
messinans became -
Apr 4, 750
homer writes his epics
Homer was the greatest story teller. -
Apr 4, 1200
trojan war
Mycenanans fought a ten year war against troy. an inependent trading cityin anatelia. -
solon takes power in athens
no citizien shouldown another citizen. he outlawed debt and slavery.made 4 social classes occording to wealth. -
persian wars: marathon
a persian fleet carried 25000 men across the aegean sea. 10000 greeks waited for them. the greeks we better trauned and disaplined. the greeks won while only loseing 200 men and the persians losing 6000 -
persian wars: thermopylea and salamis
darius got a force to crush athens. 300 spartans held off the persians for three days to gain time. darius burnt athens to the ground but lost a third of his fleet be sunk. -
delian league forms
the league continued to press the war against the persians for severale more years -
philip of mecedonia takes control of greece
in 338 athens and thebes joind forces and still were defeted. in 336 at his daughters weeding he was stabbed to death and his son alexander was king. -
Minoans Develop civilization on the island of crete
Greece wasnt as united in ancient times. It was a collection ofseperate lands where they lived. the minoans created an elegant civilization that had great power in the mediterranean.
