An Age of Greek and Persian Power

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  • 553 BCE

    Founding of Achaemenid Empire

    Cyrus the Great rebelled against Medes.
  • 530 BCE

    Persia conquers Indus Valley

  • Period: 525 BCE to 404 BCE

    Persia conquers Egypt

  • 490 BCE

    Athenian Empire defeats Persia at Marathon

  • 479 BCE

    Greece defeats Xerxes' Persian forces at Plataea

    Ended Persian imperial ambitions in Greece
  • 462 BCE

    Radicalisation of Democracy in Athens

    It was Pericles' fought
  • Period: 449 BCE to 448 BCE

    Peace between Greece and Persia

  • 334 BCE

    Alexander the Great attacks Persia

  • 333 BCE

    Battle of Issus

    Alexander the Great defeats Darius III, of Persia.
  • 331 BCE

    Egypt is conquered by Alexander the Great without Resistance

  • 330 BCE

    Death of Darius III

    Officially ended the Achaemenid Empire.
  • 327 BCE

    Alexander the Great marries Roxanne of Bactria

  • Period: 327 BCE to 325 BCE

    Alexander's Campaign in Northern India

  • 323 BCE

    Death of Alexander the Great

  • 323 BCE

    Cyprus Joins Ptolemaic Empire after Alexander the Great's Death

  • 312 BCE

    Persis comes under Seleucid rule

  • Period: 312 BCE to 83 BCE

    Syria under rule of Seleucid Empire

  • Period: 305 BCE to 30 BCE

    Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt

  • 262 BCE

    Beginning of Pergamon Empire

  • 261 BCE

    Seleucid king Antiochus killed in battle in Asia Minor

  • 195 BCE

    Hannibal flees Crete

  • 141 BCE

    Persis goes from Seleucid to Parthian domination

  • 86 BCE

    Roman general Sulla attacks Athens

  • 83 BCE

    Tigranis II invades and destroys Seleucid Empire

  • 31 BCE

    Cleopatra flees to Alexandria to negotiate with Octavian and save her children

  • 31 BCE

    Cleopatra meets Marc Anthony

    Anthony uses her in the Roman war
  • 30 BCE

    Death of Cleopatra VII, End of Ptolemaic Line in Egypt

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