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Alexander the Great succeeded his father Philip II. He conquered Anatolia, India and other places until his death in a Babylonian palace.
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Why Spartans Were So DestructiveWar between Spartans and Athenians after the Persian War even though the two had been allies in the Persian War.
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The time in Athens when the city-state started to grow and flourish after the war because its allies were strong and the relocation of the Delian Leaguse was happeneing.
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Persians, led by Cyrus are starting to invade lands and around this time have just about all of Anatolia(Asia Minor) under their control.
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The Athenians put Draco in charge of making laws so aristocratic families did not rule as much. They most likely were only about murder and are remembered for their harshness.
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Happened at the end of the Messenian war, the longest war ever fought by the greeks. Many different beliefs of why the war started.
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Homer, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, wrote poems that had an enormous impact on literature in history.
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A war between the Greeks and Trojans, started because Helen of Troy was stolen by a Trojan Prince.
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Solon takes power and as one of the first things he re-conqers Salamis. His biggest part of history is the creation of the Seisachtheia a set of laws to rectify the slavery and serfdom around Athens.
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Noble Athenian credited with the reforming of the constitution of Athens to a more democratic way.
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A battle in the Persian War in which about 10,000 Greeks of Ionia defeated 25,000 Persians because the Greeks did not like being controlled by the Persians.
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The Battle of Thermopylae was one where the new Emporer of Persia kept sending men in to fight Sparta but lost because of the narrowness until a greek betrayed his people and the Persians found a way to beat the Greeks. The Battle of Salamis happened in a similar way this time using a narrow passage of water that needed smaller ships trapping Persians in Greece.
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Formed by Greek city-states it was a treasury of money that was put aside in case another war came about. The money was guarded in Athens.
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Philip II was the King of Macedon and had early succes because of his military skills. He was leader of Greece until he was asassinated in 336 B.C.
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By 3000 B.C. the Minoans lived on the large Greek island of Crete. The Minoans created an elegant civilization that had great power in the Mediterranean world.
