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Major Events in the history of Classical Greece
750-550
657
550
510
500-494
490-479
479-431
431-404
404-371
371-362
358
338
337
335-323 		Greek Colonization
First Greek tyranny on record established in Corinth (until 580)
Establishment of the Peloponnesian League
Athenian tyranny (since 546) toppled, democracy introduced
Ionian Rising
Persian Wars
Spartan & Athenian Dualism
Peloponnesian War
Spartan Hegemony
Theban Hegemony
Unification of Macedonia under Philip II.
Battle of Chaeronea, Macedonians defeated Athens and Thebes
Foundation of Corinthian League, Macedonian Leadership
Alexander's Conquest of the Persian Empire



... Geography (click here for map) :
..... Know Greek regions : Lacedaemon, Messenia, Elis, Argos, Attica, Boeotia, Thessaly, Macedonia, Ionia, Crete
..... Know Greek poleis : Athens, Thebes, Corinth, Sparta, Miletus, Ephesus
..... Know Geographical features of Greece : Aegaean Sea, Hellespont, Chalkidike, Peloponnes, Thermopylae, Isthm
..... Know Greek cultural institutions : Delphic Oracle, Olympic Games, Athenian Academy, Athenian Acropolis

... Constitutions :
..... understand the constitutional expressions democracy, timocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, diarchy, aristocracy, gerontocracy, tyranny, hegemony
..... understand the religious expressions amphictyonia, oracle, theatre, amphitheatre
..... urban society : agora, colony, polis, acropolis
..... warfare : hoplite, phalanx, trireme

... Political History
..... Sparta : Lycurgus, Spartiate, Perioec, Helot, Peloponnesian League
..... Athens : Dracon, Solon, Peisistratus, Cleisthenes, Themistocles, Pericles, Delian League, Athenian Maritime League
..... Persian Wars : Ionian Rising, Battle of Marathon, Defense of the Thermopylae : Leonidas, Battle of Salamis, Battle of Plataea, Battle of Mycale
..... Thebes : Epaminondas, Battle of Leuctra 372

... Greek Scholars
..... Writers of Epics : Homer - Iliad, Odyssey ; Hesiod - Theogony
..... Mathematics : hales
..... Philosophy : Socrates, Platon, Aristoteles, Diogenes
..... History : Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon
..... Medicine : Hippocrates

... Legacy
..... most sciences and arts have Greek names
..... political terminology largely Greek in origin



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