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Event: Greek Kings of Sparta and Mycenae join forces to fight against Troy.
Importance: This event serves as a story of the earliest pre-Greek history in Homer's Iliad.

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Event: Mythological twins Romulus and Remus establish the city of Rome.
Importance: This date is the "beginning" of Rome's official history and creates a clear foundation for Romulus, the founder and first king.

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Event: The last Etruscan King of Rome, Tarquin, is overthrown in 509 BC.
Importance: Rome becomes a republic, using indirect democracy as its form of government, with power belonging to the Senate, made of patrician families.

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Persia was one of the most powerful civilizations at the time. Since it was already really powerful, it wanted to expand into other places, so it tried to invade Greece. Since Persia was a really strong enemy, all of Greece's city-states came together to defend against Persia's attack. After 3 attacks, Persia finally surrendered. Greece wins.

Importance:
This shows that Greece is very powerful when all the city-states are united together. Because Persia is the most powerful country at that time, while Greece still defeated them. This event is also the first time that all the city-states unite together and have a common enemy.

From William and Haohao (7F)

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This is a map of city-states and regions included in the Delian league.

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2. Delian League Formed 478 BC (Yiya Xiang Sherry Cao)

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2. Delian League Formed 478 BC (Yiya Xiang Sherry Cao)

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Event: After the victory of the Persian War, Athens and other Greek city-states formed a league for the protection of trades overseas and their homeland. City-state contributed to the league's navy.
Importance: Greek's economy depended on overseas trades due to the lack of land. This league made civil war disappear for a short period as it briefly united the city-states, protected them from invaders and also caused Athens become an empire.

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Pericles said that Just because you don’t  take an interest in politics does not mean that politics won’t take an interest in you.

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3. Pericles Leads Athens: 460 BC(Ted Bei, Yihan Fei)

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3. Pericles Leads Athens: 460 BC(Ted Bei, Yihan Fei)

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Event: After the Persian war, Pericles came to power.  His period of leadership led Athens into it's golden age. Among his improvement to Athens was his strengthening of democracy, and expanded Athens powers abroad, and beautified the city of Athens
Importance: Pericles's leadership allowed Athens to Prosper and become their golden age. This impacted the rest of Greek history, as if Pericles didn't grow Athens to the power it was, it would not have dominated the other Greek City-states, which would not have started the Peloponessian war or allow it to dominate the Delian league, and Greece would have ended.

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4. Delian League Moved to Athens: 454 BC (Alice Xu & Claire Gu)

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4. Delian League Moved to Athens: 454 BC (Alice Xu & Claire Gu)

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Event: Because Athens was a very wealthy city state at that time, the Delian League moved to Athens for storing the treasures/wealth. Importance: This event was important because if the Delian League did not move to Athens, Athens would not have used the money for rebuilding its city. After Athens rebuilt, the other city states started to hate Athens and finally, the Peloponnesian war started. It was the Peloponnesian war that divided the Greek City-States. So if Athens did not dominate the Delian League, then Greece wouldn’t have ended.

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5. Athen and Sparta Destroys Greece  (Ima and Sophia)

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5. Athen and Sparta Destroys Greece  (Ima and Sophia)

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Description: The two most powerful city-states in Ancient Greece were fighting against each other, which led to the total destruction of the Greek Civilization.

Explanation: During the war, the Greek city-states divided Athens and Sparta, also destroying Greece as a whole. Most of the beautiful Greek cultures (plays, books, art) were created during the Peloponnesian war.

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This is Pericles (on the right) giving speech to Athenians and cheering them up.

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6. Pericles' Speech Made Athenian Guys Keep Fighting : 431 BC (August) And Steve you can add yourself in the bracket if you can see this and help me :)

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6. Pericles' Speech Made Athenian Guys Keep Fighting : 431 BC (August) And Steve you can add yourself in the bracket if you can see this and help me :)

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Event: Pericles gave a speech written by Thucydides about honoring dead soldiers to get Athenians keep fighting agains Spartans and stated the value of democracy to the crowds.

Importance:
This speech encouraging Athenians keep fighting against Spartans indirectly lead to the fall of Greece.
The speech was given before the plague has started, and at that time, Athenians was already losing advantage in the civil war. This speech was encouraging Athenians keep fighting against Spartans, but sadly, the plague swiped over Athens, turning the luck to the Spartans side. Pericles also mentioned the importance and value of democracy, he pointed out:

Democracy allows men to advance because of merit rather than wealth or inherited class.

In a democracy, citizens behave lawfully while doing what they like without fear of prying eyes.

In a democracy, there is equal justice for all in private disputes.

After all, this civil war encouraging speech finally became the indirect reason of how Greece got weakened and conquered, which leaded to the spread of Hellenism later on.

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The Last Breathe of Pericles. And his men stood by.

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7. The Best Athen Leader left the Athenians fighting Because of the Plague: 429 BC (Emily and Lidia)

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7. The Best Athen Leader left the Athenians fighting Because of the Plague: 429 BC (Emily and Lidia)

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Event: The plague that raged in Athens took away the life of their best military leader-Pericles, and this led to Sparta's victory.
Description: This image shows the death of Pericles.  Pericles led Athens as the important military leader during the Peloponnesian War but taken away by the plague. Without him, the Athens declined rapidly.
Explanation: The death of Pericles caused a big hit to both Athens and Greece. Athens lost their best leader and soon lost to Sparta. This shows that the status of Pericles was not replaceable.

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8. Athens Loses to Sparta: 404 BC Chris Wong, Ian Wei

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8. Athens Loses to Sparta: 404 BC Chris Wong, Ian Wei

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Event: The two strongest city-states in Greece fought in 404 BC

The two city-states have fought before, so Greece already has split into Athenian and Spartan allies. Corinth, one of Sparta's allies, directly engaged the Athenian army. Athens retaliated, dragging Sparta into the war. Sparta started raiding Athenian territory, while Athens raided Sparta with their navy by bringing troops.
After a while, the two sides signed a treaty, saying that they will peace for 50 years, but it only lasted 6 years before they started fighting again.
Athens first attacked Sicily, and then Sparta fought the Athenian navy, finally defeating them after a decade.

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The final war between Macedon and Greece.

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9. Greece yields to Philip II's conquest: 338 BC

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9. Greece yields to Philip II's conquest: 338 BC

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By: Derek Zhang & Eric Zhang

Description: This illustrates the chaotic scene in the Battle of Chaeronea, it also depicts the destruction of Athens.

Explanation: This event marks the end of the Greek civilization's independence, it is also the start of Alexander the Great's conquest and Hellenistic assimilation process.

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10: Philip II died, Alexander ruled: 336 BC

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10: Philip II died, Alexander ruled: 336 BC

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Event: After Philip II died, Alexander, who was well tutored by Greek scholars and had trained in the Macedonian army, inherits the empire. He intends to follow in his father's footsteps and make his empire even greater.

Importance: Alexander the Great was able to use his military instincts  to build the greatest empire at that time because he inherited the Macedonia empire and then spread Hellenism to Persia and Egypt. He also started his "road" to become Alexander the Conquerer.

Made By: Ariel Lu & CoCo Fu 7F

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Event: Alexander led his Macedonian and Greek soldiers to attack Persia and took less than five years to defeat the most powerful empire in the world. Then he became the most powerful man in the world - definitely in his time and probably in all time.

Importance: As Alexander conquers the Persian Empire, his soldiers settle down, married local women, and spread Hellenism throughout the new colonies. By creating his empire, Alexander contributed a lot in creating a multicultural land and blending the Eastern and Western cultures together.

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By Bella & Tiffany

Event: Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. and his empire was divided into three parts by three key generals since nobody had the power and strength to lead this miracle.

Explanation: The death of Alexander was a type of end and meanwhile, a type of start. His death was not only the end of his great era but a start of three new kingdoms - Egypt, Rome and Greece, led by three Macedonian military leaders who divided the victory from Alexander. Because of the division, Greek culture spread in a wide range, including the language and economy (coins), which therefore, impacts modern times.

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Event: Rome conquers Macedonian kings and Greek allies in a series of wars. Greece becomes part of the Roman Empire. Rome conquered the last Macedonian Kingdom, Egypt, in 31 BC when Augustus defeated Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium.
Importance: The Roman Empire is now the ruling government in the "Western" world. .
*Fact: Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, was Macedonian. The rulers Ptolemaic Egypt descended from Alexander's general Ptolemy.