Events
Trojan WarDorian Invasion
Greek Culture destroyedOlympic GamesPhilip of Macedon;
Battle of ChaeroneaPhilip AssassinatedRome Founded by RomulusRoman Republic EstablishedLatin RevoltSettlement of 338
Self-RuleBattle of Tarentum
Pyrrhic Victory
Greece wins but loses
too many to holdTiberius Gracchus
(Land Reform)Gaius Gracchus
(Grain Redistribution)Gaius Marius
(Military Reform)Sulla Marches on RomeJulius CaesarCaesar Crosses the RubiconCaesar AssassinatedOctavianRome FallsAlexander the GreatKing MinosKnossos, CreteMycenaeMycenaeans
conquer
MinoansCity States DeunifyExpand
into
Asia Minor (Ionia)
and Italyconquest and pillageGreek
RenaissanceHelot/slave
revolts
harden
SpartaAthenian
DemocracyCleisthenes - 1 cit, 1 vote
25, male, free, landownersEkklesia - congregation
boule - 500 man council
deme - wardpolis
acropolis
agora
ostracismHerodotus ostricized from Halicarnassus
Accounts Persian War
"The Histories"Thucydides
records pelopponesian wars
cowardiceDelian League
for AthensDarius
attempts
MarathonXerxes
attempts
Athens elevated
falls to hubrisPelopponesian league W(Sparta)
vs Delian League L(Athens)Socrates
Humanism
convicted of corruption of students
socratic methodPlato
Academy
ideal state
-philosophers
-soldiers
-workers
cave allegoryAristotle
Lyceum
best government:
monarch,
aristoc,
democAlexander conquers
Egypt (Alexandria)
Fertile Crescent (persians)
indus river valley
encourages soldiers to stay and
spread greek culture - hellenisticAntigonus - Greece/Macedonia
Seleucus - Persia/India
Ptolemy - EgyptAeneus to LatiumRomulus and RemusSenate
300 patricians for life
Curiate Assem. 30 delegates granted imperium
Gen Assemb. elected by plebs
--Centuriate - elected consuls, praetors, censors
--Tribal - elected aediles, queastors, tribunes
----plebiansSipio blocks
Hannibal
H. returns to Zuma
to loseMacedonian Wars
Rome controls E-WJC AedileJC Pontifa MaximaJC gov of far SpainJC, Crassus, Pompey, 1st triumverateJC consul
dominates BibulusConquest of GaulCrassus and Pompey
gain commandCrassus killed
as gov of SyriaPompey made consul
to reign in anarchyJC Sole consul
perpetual dictator
augur
pontifia maxima
proconsul for life
censor
imperatorBrutus and Cassius
caught in Syria2nd Triumverate
Marcus Lepidus (N Africa)
Octavian (Rome, West)
Marc Antony (Egypt, East)Sicilian Revolt Squashed by
Marcus Lepidus
Marc Antony - Meets Cleopatra (Ptolemy)M.A. Cleopatra sail to
challenge Octavian
lose, Romeo Juliet suicide
Lepidus DiesOctavian - Caesar Augustus
princeps
Imperator
Praetorian GuardDiocletian
divides E and W Rome
W Rome - cultural, political
E Byzantium - EconomicConstantine moves capitol to
Byzantiam/Constantinople
Church retains W power
Legitimizes ChristianityTheodosius the Great
Makes Christianity
Official Religion of RomePeriods
Aegean PeriodDark AgeHellenic PeriodHellenistic PeriodMinoan CultureMycenaean CultureArchaic AgeClassical AgeSecond Samnite War
(Liris River)Third Samnite War
(Samnium)
(Etruria)First Samnite War
(Campania)First Punic War
(Sicily)Second Punic War
(Hannibal - Zama)First Macedonian WarSecond Macedonian WarSyrian WarThird Macedonian WarFourth Macedonian WarThird Punic War
(Carthage)Spartacus Slave Revolt
Crassus and Pompey Become ConsulsFirst TriumverateSecond TriumveratePax RomanaRoman EmpireMessenian Wars 1Messenian Wars 2PericlesPelopponesian WarsPersian WarsSocratesPlatoAristotleAlexander the GreatDiocletianConstantineConstantinian Dynasty
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