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Western Civ. I
Review of The Greco-Persian Wars
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2100-1600 | Middle Bronze Age |
| 1900 | Minoan Palaces |
| 1800 | Linear A |
| 1600-1200 | Late Bronze Age |
| 1600 | Mycenaean Palace-Citadels |
| 1500 | Thera |
| 1450 | Mycenaeans conquer Minoans; Linear B develops |
| 1200 | Destruction of Troy; decline of the Mycenaeans begins |
| 1200-900 | Early Dark Age |
| 900-750 | Late Dark Age |
| 9th Century BC | Lycurgus develops Spartan constitution |
| 776 | First Olympiad |
| 750-480 | Archaic Period |
| 750 | Homer composes the Iliad and Odyssey |
| 600 | Solon reforms laws |
| 550 | Cyrus conquers the Medes |
| 546 | Pisistratus' 3rd rise to power |
| 540 | Cyrus conquers Lydia |
| 539 | Cyrus conquers Babylon |
| 527 | Pisistratus dies |
| 525 | Cambyses conquers Egypt |
| 521 | Darius seizes rule of Persia |
| 512 | Darius invades Thrace & Scythia |
| 510 | Hippias expelled from Athens |
| 508 | Isagoras takes power in Athens |
| 507 | Cleistenes establishes Athenian democracy |
| 499-494 | Ionian Revolt |
| 492 | Mardonius' fleet sinks of of Mt. Athos |
| 490 | Battle of Marathon |
| 486 | Darus dies; Xerxes succedes him |
| 480 | Battles of Thermopylae & Salamis |
| 479 | Battles of Plataea & Mycale |
| 480-323 | Classical Period |
| 323-30 | Hellenistic Period |