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The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth
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The Hellenistic Period
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Alexander the Great dies at Babylon
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Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born
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Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends
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Construction of Temple of Athena Nike
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Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens
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Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens
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The Parthenon is completed
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Euripides writes his first tragedy
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The Peloponnesian Wars begins between Sparta and Athens
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The Greek Classical Period
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Greek Coin currency introduced
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Draco's code of law is introduced
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The Rise of the Greek tyrants
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The First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia
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The First Olympic Games are staged
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The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall of the Mycenean culture
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The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed on the Asia Minor coast.
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The Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium)
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Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World
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Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens
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Greek Persian Wars led by Xerxes
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First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon
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Pericles leads Athens
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The Parthenon is completed
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Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at Issus and is given Egypt by the Persian Satrap where he builds a capital at Alexandria and founds the great library
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New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop
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Development of the first Greek Alphabet
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Homer writes the ILIAD
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Democracy develops
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Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they are triumphant at SALAMIS and PLATAEA
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Greek Persian Wars led by Xerxes
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First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon
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Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants
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Plato founds the Academy
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Aristotle is born
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Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
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Sophocles writes his first tragedy
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Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece
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Construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens
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The great Minoan civilization
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The Bronze Age when Early Aegean cultures start to emerge
