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Period: 1600 BCE to 1500 BCE
Minoans height
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Period: 1400 BCE to 1200 BCE
Mycenaeans height
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1250 BCE
Trojan War
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750 BCE
Homer
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631 BCE
Draco
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594 BCE
Solon reforms
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549 BCE
Cyrus conquers the Medes to start the Achaemenid Empire (Persian)
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530 BCE
Cambyses II rules
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522 BCE
Darius II (the Great) rules
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513 BCE
Scythians camping of Darius
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507 BCE
Cleisthenes brings 'democracy' to Athens
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Period: 499 BCE to 493 BCE
Ionian Revolt
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Period: 492 BCE to 449 BCE
Persian Wars
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490 BCE
Battle of Marathon and Pheidippides
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484 BCE
Herodotus born
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480 BCE
Battle of Thermopylae, Ephiliates, and the "300"
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480 BCE
Battle of Salamis
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479 BCE
Battle of Plataea
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470 BCE
Socrates born
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442 BCE
Pericles in his prime
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Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE
Peloponnesian War
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428 BCE
Plato born
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384 BCE
Aristotle born
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336 BCE
Alexander the Great rules