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Timeline of Ancient Greek 3 - Timeline Help
Timeline of Ancient Greek three of five from 640 BCE to 479 BCE at Timeline Help.
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- 479 BCE | Second Messenian War begins when Sparta once again invades Messenia. Cyrene is founded.
Sappho is born in Lesbos.
Athens adopts Draco's code of law.
Coins are introduced as currency. Solon repeals Draconian law in Athens in favor of democracy.
Pythagoras is born in Samos.
Persia invades and conquers many Greek regions in Asia Minor. Pesistratos becomes a tyrant king in Athens.
Anaximander dies, having written the first philosophical treatise and making the very first map of the known world.
Athens is the home of a new form of red-figure pottery.
Spartans and the Alcmaeonid family free Athens from the tyranny of Pesistratos and his sons.
Cleisthenes establishes a democratic constitution. Men in Athens could vote to decide how the city-state should be governed.
Classical Period begins, with a great increase in art, literature, philosophy, architecture and politics. Athens becomes the hub of civilization in the Mediterranean region.
Persia invades Greece and the Battle of Marathon takes place. The Greeks prevail over the Persians.
Silver is discovered close to Athens. Athens begins building a naval fleet.
Second Persian invasion of Greece occurs when Xerxes brings his army, with the Spartans being soundly defeated at Thermopylae. Athens becomes an occupied territory by the Persians. They are finally defeated at Salamis.
Greeks beat the Persians at Plataea. | Timeline of Ancient Greek 3 1 2 4 5
| Bibliography of the Timeline of Ancient Greek Christidis, A F (2007). History of Ancient Greek From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity.
Hanson, V D (2006). Wars of the Ancient Greeks. Smithsonian History of Warfare.
Hall, J M (2006). History of the Archaic Greek World 1200 - 479 BCE. Blackwell History of the Ancient World.
Price, S (1999). Religions of the Ancient Greeks. |
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