Battle of Marathon – Pheidippides
Miltiades' bronze helmet from the Battle of Marathon Pheidippides runs to Sparta to get help The Athenians took up a strong position in the hills around Marathon and (according to [...]
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End of the Peloponnesian War
The end of the Peloponnesian War: Tissaphernes, the Persian satrap Alcibiades changes sides The Spartans defeated the Sicilian Expedition in 415 BC. Plus, now they had the help of the [...]
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Peloponnesian War – Athens and Sparta
Parthenon, Athens The Athenian historian Thucydides, who lived through the Peloponnesian War and wrote the history of it, began by asking, why did the war start? He answered that basically [...]
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Paleolithic Greece – the first people
Outside Franchthi Cave The first people came to Greece not long after leaving Africa, about 55,000 BC. They probably came along the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, through what is [...]
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Neolithic Greece – the Late Stone Age
Neolithic Greece: Sheep grazing under an olive tree Farming and herding By around 7000 BC there started to be more people in Greece. It became harder and harder to get [...]
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Minyans – Middle Bronze Age Greece
Minyan Ware - Greek pottery from about 2000 BC Indo-Europeans The new invaders who destroyed Lerna at the end of the Early Bronze Age in 2100 BC, were the Greeks. [...]
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Minoan Crete – Bronze Age Greece
Map of Minoan Crete Where did the Minoans come from? Sometime in the Neolithic period - the Late Stone Age - people came to live on the island of Crete [...]
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Mesolithic Greece – the Middle Stone Age
Mainland Greece is on the left and Turkey is on the right,and the Greek islands are scattered between them When was the Mesolithic in Greece? Nobody knows much yet about [...]
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Battle of Marathon – First Persian War
Battle of Marathon: The plain of Marathon The First Persian War The Persians were attacking Greece! They landed at Marathon in the fall of 490 BC. When the Athenians heard [...]
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First Persian War – Ancient Greece
Darius I, from the Behistun Inscription in Iran - First Persian War Darius wants revenge After the Ionian Revolt of 499 BC, the Persians and their king Darius wanted to [...]
