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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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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Greek history – Ancient Greece
Satellite view of Greece Between two continents Greece is near West Asia, and at the edge of Europe, the way Egypt is near West Asia, and at the edge of Africa. [...]
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Who was Hippias, tyrant of Athens?
Who was Hippias? Harmodius and Aristogeiton attacking Hippias and Hipparchus Hippias and Hipparchus When the tyrant Pisistratus died in 528 BC, his two sons, Hippias and Hipparchus, took over ruling Athens [...]
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Greece in the Early Bronze Age
A beaked jug from Early Bronze Age Greece (Lerna, about 2100 BC) Bronze comes to Greece Bronze is a metal that is a mixture of a little tin and a [...]
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Greek history Bingo – Ancient Greece activity
Black-figure amphora by Exekias showing Achilles and Ajax playing checkers To review and make sure you know the basics of Greek history, try playing this Greek History Bingo game. Copy [...]
