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2000 BC Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive ( first known Greek‐speaking tribes )
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323 BC Alexander the Great dies
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404 BC Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends
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431 BC The Peloponnesian War begins – Sparta and her allies vs Athens and her allies
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432 BC The Parthenon is completed
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776 BC First Pan Hellenic athletes contests ( Olympic Games )
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1100 BC The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed on
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1400 BC Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World
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Rome conquers
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338 BC Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece
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480 BC Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they
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490 BC First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon
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509 BC Democracy develops
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800 BC Homer writes the ILIAD
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899‐800 BC New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop
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329 BC Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
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