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The Great Minoan civilization was a civilization during the Aegean Bronze Age that began on the island of Crete and other Aegean islands. It was the start of Ancient Greece.
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The Trojan War was a conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece. The war began because Queen Helen of Sparta was abducted (or ran away) by the Trojan prince, Paris.
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Homer is known to be the best and also first, epic poet of Ancient Greece. He is most famous for his writings, the Iliad and the Odyssey. His writings are a huge part of literature history and are very well known to this day. Homer was born between 12th - 8th centuries BC, thought to be somewhere located on the coast of Asia Minor. Not a lot is known about his life, but his literature works are.
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The first Olympic games were held in Olympia in honor of Zeus.
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This war was between Sparta and Messenia that lasted many years.
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Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey (750 - 700 BC)
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This war was also between Messenia and Sparta. It started about 40 years after the First Messenian War with the rebellion of slaves. (685 BC – 668 BC)
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The Draconian laws were very harsh laws written by Draco, the first known legislator of Athens during Ancient Greece.
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Greek Coin Currency Is Introduced in 600 BC.
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Leonidas I, born in Sparta, Greece, in 540 BC, was a warrior-king of Sparta during Ancient Greece. He became king around 490 BC until his death, at Thermopylae in 480 BC.
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The two well known battles of the Greek/ Persian War are the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) and the Battle of Salamis (480 BC). The Greeks won the war and the Persians retreated.
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Socrates, born in 471 BC, Classical Athens, was a classical Greek philosopher. He was also one of the most important founders of Western philosophy.
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The Peloponnesian Wars begin between Sparta and Athens. (461 - 446 BC)
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Hippocrates was famous Greek Physician who made a great influence in the history of medicine. He was born in Kos, Greece, in 460 BC. He then died in Larissa, Greece, in 370 BC.
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The Parthenon, temple of Athena, is completed in Athens on the Acropolis.
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The Second Peloponnesian War is also between Sparta and Athens in 431 BC.
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Plato was another famous philosopher of Classical Greece and was also the founder of the Academy in Athens. He was born in Classical Athens, in 428 BC. He later died in 348 BC.
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Aristotle was a great Greek philosopher and scientist born in Stagira, Greece, in 384 BC. He later died in Chalcis, in 822 BC.
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Born in Pella, Macedonia, in 356 BC
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Reign of Alexander the Great, in 336 BC - 323 BC Alexander the Great, also known as Alexander III of Macedon, was the king of the Macedon kingdom and also a member of the Argead dynasty during Ancient Greece.
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Died in Babylon, Iraq, June 323 BC
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Rome makes Greece part of the Roman Empire.
