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Feb 26, 2021 · A quick look at the timeline of ancient Greece shows that the history of the civilization goes all the way back to around 1100 BCE, a time period historians often refer to as the Greek Dark Ages. Following that period was the Archaic Period, which started around 776 BCE and ended in 500 BCE.
Battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans under King Leonidas and other Greek allies hold back the Persians led by Xerxes I for three days but are defeated. Sep 480 BCE Battle of Salamis where the Greek naval fleet led by Themistocles defeats the invading armada of Xerxes I of Persia .
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- Mycenean Greece. The northern section of Greece is best-known for the polis of Athens, the Peloponnese, and for Sparta. There were also thousands of Greek islands in the Aegean sea, and colonies on the eastern side of the Aegean.
- Vicinity of Troy. This map shows Troy and the surrounding area. Troy is referred to in the legend of the Trojan War of Greece. Later, it became Anatolia, Turkey.
- Ephesus Map. On this map of ancient Greece, Ephesus is a city on the east side of the Aegean Sea. This ancient Greek city was on the coast of Ionia, close to present-day Turkey.
- Greece 700-600 B.C. This map displays the beginnings of historic Greece 700 B.C.- 600 B.C. This was the period of Solon and Draco in Athens. The philosopher Thales and the poet Sappho were active during this time as well.
Nov 1, 2018 · Alexander decisively defeated Darius at the Battle of Gaugamela & was now supreme ruler of the regions formerly belonging to the Persian Empire. He crossed from Greece into Asia Minor in 334 BCE with an army of 32,000 infantry and 5,100 cavalry and sacked the city of Baalbek and took Ephesus.
- Joshua J. Mark
Nov 13, 2013 · Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy ( Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle ), literature ( Homer and Hesiod ), mathematics ( Pythagoras and Euclid ), history ( Herodotus ), drama ( Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes ), the Olympic Games, and democracy. The concept of an atomic universe was first posited in Greece through the ...
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Greek Timeline B.C. 498 Persian invasion of Greece 498-448 Greco-Persian Wars 336 Death of Philip of Macedon 334 Alexander the Great begins his conquests 334 Battle of the Granicus 333 Battle of Issus 331 Battle of Arbela 323 Death of Alexander 146 Greece is made a Roman Province
Dec 6, 2023 · Following the death of Alexander and the division of his empire, the Hellenistic period (323-31 B.C.E.) saw Greek power and culture extended across the Middle East and as far as the Indus Valley. When Rome absorbed the Greek world into its vast empire, Greek ideas, art and culture greatly influenced the Romans.
