Ancient Greece

The Olympic Games

776 BCE

These Olympic Games are held every four years in Athens.One year a man showed up with no clothes on so it became a thing for the Olympics,therefore married women could not attend. These Olympics were in tribute to Zeus.

The Persian War

499 BCE

This war is between the Athens and Spartans that joined together and the Persians. The Persians were really good and killing many on the other side so some of the Spartans and Athenians and 300 Spartan soilders stayed back to hold back the Persian pass. At the end of the battle all of the 300 Spartan soilders that stayed back all died

Pericles

494 BCE

Pericles was the Athenian leader for the Peloponnesian war against Sparta and he thought he had a good chance in winning. But in the end he fled to Sparta after his army was split and was told to go back to Athens and he showed the Athenians plans for the battle to the Spartan army but didn't trust him so he fled to Persia and the same thing happened there, but he lived the rest of his life in Persia.

The Golden Age

479 BCE

This started at the end of the Persian war and it ended at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war.Pericles was one of the leading citizens of Athens during the Golden Age.Oher city states feared Athens because they were developing great power

Socrates

469 BCE

Socrates grew up during the golden age and fought in the Peloponnesian war.Socrates didn't write anything as a philosopher his student Plato wrote it.Socrates hated democracy so people put his to a slow brutal death by drinking poison.

Pelopennesian War

430 BCE

This was a war between Sparta and Athens. Pericles, the Athenian leader told everybody to leave their homes and come behind the city walls. The Spartans burned all of the crops in the fields and after a while they had no food so they retreated and the athenians attacked them when they got home.Sparta won after Athens surrendered.

Plato

427 BCE

Plato was a student of Socrates,he was the one that wrote the stuff about Socrates he wrote the conversations he may of had with people and his way of solving peoples problems (asking them lots of questions) he started a school called the Academy

Aristotle

384 BCE

Aristotle went to Plato´s school the Academy for 20 years,and became a philosopher after.His father taught him to observe people which helped him on his journey in philosphy.

Alexander the Great

356 BCE

Alexander was one of Aristotle's students and was the son of King Phillip the second. his father was assassinated and Alexander became king when he was only 20.He wanted to defeat his fathers biggest rival the Persians so he challenged them with a battle of only 35,000 men.Alexander was great in battle he was conquering many states off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea but he went into battle with the Persians and they had the most powerful weapons........ELEPHANTS!!!!

The Library of Alexandria

100 BCE

this library was located in Egypt. It held over 200,000 scrolls then after a while they had 700,000 scrolls. For many years this was the center of learning this is also where Ptolemy worked on his theory on how the stars and the sun orbit around the earth. Then sadly it was destroyed by robberies,invasions,and fires.