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He was the King of Mycenae
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The first Olympic Games were help in Olympia in 776 B.C. The Olympic Games were a contest of multiple activities mainly used in training for armies. It was an honorable competition overlooked by the Greek god Zeus.
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The Draconian Law created by Draco as written law for the Athenians
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Darius l was the third king of the Achaemenid Empire
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He was the fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire
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Athenian democracy developed around the sixth century BC in the Greek city-state of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. Athenian democracy is often described as the first known democracy in the world.
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The first Persian war started with the invasion of Greece. And ended with the Athens winning the war
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The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece.
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The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece.
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The Battle of Thermopylae was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas I of Sparta, and the Achaemenid Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
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Parthenon is a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena built by the Athenian Empire
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The Peloponnesian war was a war fought by the Peloponesian League led by Sparta and the Delian League led by the Athens.
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Pericles was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during its golden age, specifically the time between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically-influential Alcmaeonid family.
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Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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A giant weapon used to fling projectiles into the air that cause huge amounts of damage.
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Socrates was a Greek Philosopher from Athens who was one of the founders of Western Philosophy.
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The Athens academy was a school created in Athens
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He was a Greek Philosopher who educated a bunch of other important figures
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Philip ll was the king of the kingdom Macedonio from 359 B.C. to 336 B.C.
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Alexander was one of their greatest Greek rulers who was given the throne past down to him from his father Philip ll
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Chaeronea was the final battle of Philip ll and his son Alexander’s campaign uniting Greece under their control. The battle represented the end of independent Greek city-states and led to the formation of the Macedonian Empire.
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The League of Corinth was an alliance formed by Greeks sates after the battle of Chaeronea
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Alexander the Great over threw the king of Macedonia and became the new ruler. He led armies into India and held the throne for 13 years.
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The author of the two famous poems Lliad and Odyssey centered around Greek literacy.
