Classical Greece Timeline
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Updated: 9 Feb 2018
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Created byAndrea Martinez
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In 621 B.C., Darco wrote the Greeks first legal code.Socrates was trial for "corrupting the youth of Athens" and "neglecting the city's gods." He was put to death by making him drink poison.Plato founded a school called The Academy in 387 B.C., which lasted about 900 years.Aristotle opened his own school called the Lyceum in 335 B.C.The Colossus of Rhodes was a bronze statue that stood more than 100 feet tall but was destroyed by an earthquake in 225 B.C.The Hellenistic Period was ending around 150 B.C.Periods
The famous storyteller, Homer lived around 750 to 700 B.C.From 600 up to 371 B.C. Sparta had the most powerful army in Greece.The Persian Wars was fought between Perisan and the Greeks around 492 and 449 B.C.Alexander the Great empire lasted from 336 to 306 B.C.
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