Ancient Greece

  • 323

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    Alexander the Great Dies
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    404

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    Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian war ends.
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    431

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    The Peloponnesian war begins - Sparta vs Athens
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    432

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    The Parthenon is completed.
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    Jan 1, 776

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    The fisrt Pan Hellenic Athletics Contest (Olmpic Games).
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    Jan 1, 1100

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    The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s. First Greek settlement formed on the Asia Minor coast.
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    Jan 1, 1400

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    The Mycenaean’s are in control of the Aegean World.
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    Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive (first known Greek‐speaking tribes).
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    New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop
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    Homer writes the ILIAD.
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    Democracy forms thanks to Cleisthenes.
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    First Persian Invasion and Battle of Marathon.
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    Second Persian Invasion - Greeks are defeated at Thermopylae but they are triumphant at Salamis and Plataea
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    Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece
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    Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire.
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    Ancient Greece