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300
C. 300 BCE Euclid studies and writes about mathematics and geometry
Euclid was known as the father of geometry at the time introducing Theorems, proving that it is impossible to find the largest prime number, and many other geometry concepts. These discovers are pivotal in modern day mathematics. -
400
400s BCE Hippocrates practises and studies medicine
Hippocrates proved that illness was not an act of the gods but a natural recurrence. He also mentioned and described clubbing of fingers as a diagnostic sign of chronic suppurative lung disease, lung cancer and cyanotic heart disease. Hippocrates techniques changed the face of Greek medicine and have lead to modern techniques and discoveries of our medical system. -
431
431 BCE The Peloponnesian War begins Sparta and Athens
The Peloponnesian War occurred in Mainland Greece, Asia Minor, and Sicily. Involved in the war was The two polis Athens and Sparta. After the war Athens once the most powerful city in Greece was then devastated, leaving Sparta as the most powerful polis. Athens never regained post war power changing Greek government. -
431
431 to 404 BCE:
The Greek city-states are weakened through competition with one another and heavy taxes during the Peloponnesian Wars. With such heavy taxes the City-states lost economical standpoint in the war making it hard for them to get basic materials and weapons to fight in the war which lead to many defeats of the city-states. -
507
507 BCE A democratic constitution sets rules for governance in Athens
The rules made Athens a democracy and allowed male citizens to be apart of the democracy, by being able to address the assembly and express opinions. It was founded by Cleisthenes. The rules created the first known democracy the same system that we in the modern world use. -
Jan 1, 621
621 BCE: Athens develops a written code of laws
The Draco and Solon Laws were said to be The Greeks first set of laws. The leagal code punished both trivialo and serious crimes in Athens with death. This event was important because it lead the way to the laws we have today. Although not as harsh as they were back in ancient Greece, our modern day laws were based off of the Greeks, without them our legal system would be substanicaly diffrent. -
Jan 1, 700
From the 8th century BCE to 650 BCE:
Most Greek city-states become oligarchies ruled by the wealthy wine and olive oil merchants and land owners. In this pireod many farmers in Greec become impoverished and are sold into slavery. As the poverty in farmers increased the political position also increased leading way to a more ivoloved political system. This was important to the Greek democracy because it upgraded the govermet and lead way to our modern day goverment. -
Jan 1, 776
776 BCE The first Olympic games take place
The first Olympic games was held in Athens. All free male Greek citizens were allowed to participate in the Olympics, regardless of their social status. The first Olympic games created the tradition games that we in modern society enjoy today. -
800- 700 BCE The blind poet Homer writes the Illiad and the Odyssey
Homers poem was preserved throughout Acient Greece and resulted in a grand development of the fields of philosophy, science, history, drama, medicine, art and more. Without the development of these subjects we would not have the advances we do today in these subjects. -
C. 380 BCE Plato opens an academy of learning in Athens
Plato's Academy allowed Athenians who were not exposed to education to now be lectured and taught by a teacher. This academy was important because it allowed more people in Athens to be educated, and taught properly. -
800 BCE: Sparta develops the first code of Greek written law to govern its military city-state.
these laws helped to keep the military in line and show them the right or wrong thing to do. They also paved the way for other military's/governments to have a sort of code of conduct or laws that they are supposed to follow. Without the military laws our society would not be as uniformed as it is today. -
584 to 595 BCE: Solon becomes sole ruler in Athens
And makes reforms to the government. The poorer classes are included in making government decisions through an elected council, and many people are freed from slavery due to debts. By canceling the debts Solon was able to boost Greece's econmoics by hiring slaves and anyone out of debt. The new goverment was an aristocratic Council of Four Hundred. All of thes acheivments helped Greece to thrive during that pireod without Solon's inovations our goverment would be drassticaly diffrent.
