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3000-1400

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Minoans

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4000

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Pelasgians

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1400-1100

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Mycenaeans

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1100

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Dorian Invasion

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1582

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Cecrops founded Athens

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1313

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Cadmus founded Thebes

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2800-1050

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Bronze Age

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2400

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Height of Cretan Power

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8
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1900

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Cretan palaces destroyed by earthquakes

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9
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1250

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Final destruction of Knossus

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10
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1287

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Battle of Cadesh

Between Egyptians and Hittites

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11
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1900 AD

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Sir Arthur Evans unearths Knossus

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12
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1283

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Pelops arrives in Elis

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13
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1261

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Hercules’ born

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14
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1225

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Theseus is king of Athens
Unification of Attica
Oedipus is king of Thebes

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15
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1209

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Hercules dies

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16
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1192-1183

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Trojan War

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17
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c. 850

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Homer

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18
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734

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Corcyra is founded

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19
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8th century struggle

First major conflict in Greek history

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Lelantine War

Between Chalcis and Eretria

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20
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725-705

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1st Messenian War

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21
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640-631

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2nd Messenian War

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22
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c. 885

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Lycurgus rules Sparta

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23
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c. 620

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Draco rules Athens

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24
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462

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Areopagus does something

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25
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632

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Cylon’s plot

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26
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590

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1st Sacred War

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27
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630

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Theagenes becomes tyrant of Megara

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28
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664

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Corinth vs Corcyra

First recorded naval battle

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29
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c. 655

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Cypselus becomes tyrant of Corinth

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30
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687-652

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Gyges

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31
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776

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Olympic Games founded

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32
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582

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Pythian and Isthmean Games founded

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33
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576

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Nemean Games founded

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34
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700

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Deioces founded Media

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35
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594

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Solon is elected archon

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36
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556

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Pisistratus’ first expulsion from Athens

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37
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550

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Pisistratus’ return with Phye

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38
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549

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Pisistratus’ second expulsion

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39
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546

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Pisistratus’ final rise to power

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40
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527

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Pisistratus’ death

Hippias’ and Hipparchus’ rise to power

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41
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510

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Cleomenes’ expels Hippias

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42
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507

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Cleisthenes restores democracy to Athens

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43
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487-417

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Ostracism used

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44
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540

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Polycrates seizes Samos with the aid of his brothers

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45
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499

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Ionian revolt

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46
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494

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Battle of Lade

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47
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493

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Themistocles is elected Archon

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48
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491

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Darius sends envoys

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49
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490

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Battle of Marathon

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50
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489

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Aristides is elected archon

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51
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487

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Militiades secures his downfall

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52
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485

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Darius dies

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53
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484

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Xanthippus is ostracized

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54
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482

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Aristides is ostracized

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55
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481

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Synedrion of Probuloi

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56
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480

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Battle of Artemissium
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Himera

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57
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479

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Battle of Plataea
Battle of Mycale
Siege of Sestos

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58
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480-430

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Pentekontoetia

59
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477

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Delian League

60
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474

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Battle of Cyme

61
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484-440

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Herodotus of Halicarnassus

62
Q

471

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Themistocles is ostracized

Pausanius is starved to death

63
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469

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Naxos is the first to revolt from the Delian League

64
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468

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Battle of Eurymedon

Double land battle

65
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464

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3rd Messenian War

66
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461

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Cimon is ostracized

67
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454

A

Delian treasury is moved from Delos to Athens

68
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451

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Pericles restricts citizenship

69
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458

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Battle of Aegina

70
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457

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Battle of Tanagrea

Battle of Oenophyta

71
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446

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Thirty years treaty

72
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440

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Samos revolts from the Delian League

73
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415

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Protagorus

74
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449

A

2nd Sacred War

First Peace of Callias

75
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431

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Sparta declares war on Athens

76
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430

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Plague in Athens

77
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429

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Pericles dies

78
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428

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Massacre at Mytilene barely prevented

79
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425

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Siege of Sphacteria and Pylos

Sparta’s first surrender

80
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424

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Battle of Delium

Socrates saves the life of Alcibiades

81
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423

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One year’s truce

82
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422

A

Battle of Amphipolis

83
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421

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Peace of Nicias

84
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420

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Alcibiades chosen strategos

85
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418

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Battle of Mantinea

86
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417

A

Hyperbolus becomes the last person ostracized

87
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416

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Massacre at Melos

“MIGHT MAKES RIGHT”

88
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415

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Expedition to Syracuse

Downfall of Alcibiades

89
Q

414

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Siege of Syracuse

90
Q

413

A

Defeat at Syracuse

91
Q

410

A

Revolt of Four Hundred

92
Q

405

A

Battle of Aegospotami

93
Q

404

A

Surrender of Athens

Rule of Thirty

94
Q

395-386

A

Corinthian War

95
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368

A

Ariobarzanes initiated a congress at Delphi.

Sparta wins “tearless battle”.

96
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364

A

Pisans and Arcadians invade Olympia during Olympic Truce.

Battle of Cynoscephalae.

97
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401

A

Persian mercenary expedition.
Battle of Cunaxa.
March of Ten Thousand.

98
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398

A

Lysander secures the kingship of Agesilaus

99
Q

395

A

Lysander dies

100
Q

394

A

Battle of Cnidus

Battle of Coronea

101
Q

387

A

King’s Peace

102
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383

A

Sparta tries to screw with Thebes

103
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371

A

Battle of Leuctra

Second Peace of Callias

104
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374

A

Jason gained control of Thessaly by winning over Parsalus

105
Q

370

A

Jason assassinated

106
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362

A

Battle of Mantinea

Epaminondas dies

107
Q

363

A

Timotheus recovered Byzantium

108
Q

411

A

Battle of Syme

109
Q

146

A

Fall of Corinth due to Rome’s conquest of Greece

110
Q

399

A

Socrates’ trial and death

111
Q

398-397

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First Punic War

112
Q

392

A

Second Punic War

113
Q

383-378

A

Third Punic War

114
Q

378

A

Second Athenian League

115
Q

368-367

A

Fourth Punic War

116
Q

355

A

Chares accuses Timotheus, Iphicrates, and all Athenian generals of deliberate treachery

117
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344

A

Timoleon expels Dionysus and reestablish democracy in Syracuse

118
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c. 380

A

Archelaus of Macedon

119
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365

A

Perdiccas becomes king of Macedon

120
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356

A

Third Sacred War

121
Q

355

A

Aristotle establishes a school at Lyceum

122
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349

A

Battle of Olynthus

123
Q

338

A

Battle of Chaeronea

124
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336

A

Philip II is stabbed by Pausanius

Alexander ascends the throne

125
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354-350 & 350-346

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Eubulus manages Theoric Fund in Athen

126
Q

334

A

Battle of Granicus

127
Q

333

A

Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot
Alexander crowns the tomb of Achilles
Battle of Issus

128
Q

332

A

Conquest of Syria, Phoenicia, and Egypt

129
Q

331

A

Battle of Guagamela

130
Q

330

A

Battle of Persepolis

Alexander assumes the title of Basileus

131
Q

327

A

Alexander enters India

132
Q

326

A

Battle of Hydapses

133
Q

June 13, 323

A

Alexander dies

134
Q

88

A

Athens and other city-states revolt against Rome. Sulla crushes the Revolt

135
Q

1879 AD

A

Schliemann unearths Troy

136
Q

1876 AD

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Schliemann unearths Mycenae

137
Q

499-479

A

Persian Wars

138
Q

431-404

A

Peloponnesian Wars

139
Q

570

A

Sparta awards Solon Salamis, instead of Megara

140
Q

585

A

Thales predicts eclipse of the sun

141
Q

469

A

Epaminondas frees Messenia from slavery to Sparta

142
Q

407

A

Alcibiades deposed again

143
Q

287-212

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Archimedes

144
Q

1500

A

Volcanic eruption on Thera

145
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351

A

Demsothenes gives his first Philippic

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