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776 BCE
The first Olympics
the first event was foot race and the Olympics was a ceremony to honor Zeus the king of all gods -
498 BCE
The Persian war
in 498 B.C. the Athens crossed the Aegean sea to Asia minor and so did the Persians to punish the Athens. -
495 BCE
Pericles
in 495-429 b.c. Pericles was born and he made the Dalian league and rebuilt acropolis and led the Athens to war -
480 BCE
The Persian war
in 480 b.c. another Persian army with 100,000 men and 600-700 led by the king Xerxes -
479 BCE
The Persian war
in 479 b.c. the Persian war ended the spartan general Pausanias led the Greeks to the battle of Plataea. -
469 BCE
Socrates a great philosopher
Socrates was born in 469 b.c. He was a Greek philosopher and taught others about life he had a way of teaching called the Socratic method . He was arrested for corrupting the people of Athens. As a punishment he was forced to drink hemlock a kind of poison that made you choke. He died on 399 b.c. -
431 BCE
Peleponnesian war
in 431 b.c. the Peloponnesian war broke out. it lasted 25 years. -
430 BCE
Plato
Plato was born in 430 b.c. He was a student of Socrates and was 24 when the peleponnesian war he had a school that was built that lasted for over 900 years he believed in the Socratic method and one of his students was Aristotle he didn’t believe in the democracy and he felt that philosophers should play a center role in society. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
He was a student of Plato. He was born in 384 b.c. In Macedonia a country north of Greece he studied Plato and was at Plato’s school for 20 years aristotle believesd in slavery he valued men above women and he believed not everyone was equal. He was so important he was referred to “the philosopher”. -
356 BCE
Alexander the great
Alexander the Great was one of Aristotle’s students he was powerful and son of philip || his father was assassinated and Alexander became king he took over the known world and was really strong he hade many enemy’s he died when he was at the age of 33
