Timeline Flashcards
(29 cards)
1220 BC
Greeks destroy Troy
1100-800
Evolution of polis
1100-800
Part 2
Poems of homer and Hesiod are composed
800-500
Rise of Sparta and Athens
776
First Olympic Games
753
Rome is founded
750-700
Greek alphabet developed
630
Laws of Lycurgus at Sparta
600-530
Cyrus the great, King of Persia
594
Laws of Solon at Athens
550-486
Darius king of Persia
523-456
Aeschylus, tragedian
518-465
Xerxes, King of Persia
499-479
Persian wars (Herodotus)
497-406
Sophocles, tragedian
494-429
Pericles, statesman
490
Battle of Marathon
490-430
Zeno, philosopher
484-425
Herodotus, historian
480
Battles of Thermopylae and salamis
480-406
Euripides, tragedian
479
Battles of platea and mycale
469-399
Socrates, philosopher
460-400
Thucydides, historian