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The Founding Of Greece 800 B.C.
Ancient greece was founded abou 2,500 years ago. By 800 BC small villages started to turn into towns. Some of the Greeks even made city states. Ancient greece was not it's own country, and it didn't have a single ruler or goverment. It was a bunch of states. Greece is located in Europe. -
The Firs olympic games began 776 BC
By 776 BC the first olympic games began. Some of the olympic games included foot races, chariot races, discos, jumping, and running with armor. The olympic games still happen every year today. -
Atheians became a democracy 508 BC
in 508 BC Kisththenis grew powerful and placed foundations of an Atheian democracy and with very serious forms. -
Greece started to argue and fight with Persia 499 BC
Just east of Greece was the large Persian empire. In 499 BC Greek started to argue and fight with Persia and it soon broke oou into war. Some of the Greek colonies in Asia Minor were conqured by the Persia. -
The Athens surrenderd to Sparta and Thirty Tyrants Rule 404BC
In 404 BC the Athens surrenderd to Sparta. Then after the peloponnesia war, the Thirty Tyrants ruled the Athens. Tyrants are very bad people. If they didn't like someone they would kill them and if something was not how it was supposed to be or if they didn't like it they would destroy it. -
Phillip the second was assisinated 336 BC
In 336 BC Phillip The Second was assinated. After his assination his son Alexander The Great took his place as king. -
Alexander the Great died hellinistic Age began 323 BC
In 323 BC Alexander The Great died. After he died the Hellenistic age began. The Hellenistic age was a time when Greeks cane in contact with people out side their culture but it was uneffected by other cultures. Their culture was purified. -
Greek was defeated by Rome 146 BC
In 146 BC the Romans had beat the Carthage in war. After the war they moved to their next targets, the Greeks. After a few monts of prevoking the Greeks, the Romans defeated them too. -
sources cited
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