Unit 2 Terms Flashcards
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Greeks destroy Troy
1100-800
Evolution of the polis
1100-800
Second one
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
446-386
Aristophanes, comedian
431-404
Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
430
Plague of Athens
427-347
Plato, philosopher
415-413
Athenian expedition to Syracuse