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Athens experienced a growth in intellectual and artistic learning. They called this the Golden Ages. During this time, drama, sculpture, poetry, philosophy, artchitecture and science all reached new heights. Pericles was the most prominent and influential Greek statesmen, orator, and general of Athens during the Golden Age—specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.
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Cleithenes broke up the power of the nobility by organizing citizens into ten groups based on wear they lived. He also increased the power os assembly by allowing all citizens to submit laws for debate and passage.
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Greece and the Persian Empire began in Ionia on the coast of Anatolia. They had long been settled there and conquered the area.
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Draco takes power in Athens. He developed a legal code based on the idea thata all Athenians , rish and poor, were equal under law.
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Sparta conquered the neighboring region of Messenia and took over the land. Each year, the Spartans demanded half helots' crops.
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Homer was a blind man. He wrote narrative poems celebrating herois deeds sometime between 750 B.C. and 700 B.C. The Trojan War formed the backdrop for the Iliad, one of his greatest works. Another one of his works includes the Odyssey.
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The Mycenaeans fought a 10-year war against Troy. The Greek army besieged and destroyed Troy because a Trojan prince kidnapped the Greek king's wife.
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Solon outlawed debt slavery. He organized all Athenian citizins into four social classes according to wealth.
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A Persian fleet carried 25,000 men across the Agian Sea and and landed in the northeast of Athens on a plain called Marathon.
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Darius assembled an enormous invasion to crush the Athens. The Greeks were badly divided. Some cities agreed to fight them, but others were wiser to turn home.
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The Delian League was an alliance of mainly coastal and Aegean city-states against Persia at a time when Greece feared Persia might attack again. Its goal was to make Persia pay and to free the Greeks under Persian dominion. The league morphed into the Athenian Empire that opposed the Spartan allies in the Peloponnesian War.
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By 3000 B.C. the Minoans lived on the large Greek island of Crete. They created an elegant civilization that had great power in the Mediterranean world.
