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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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Description: This picture shows the Persian Empire at the time the Persian Wars happened. We can tell the Persian Empire was currently the largest and strongest empire existing. As the Empire expands north-west, it would be obvious that Greece is their next target. The Greeks weren't going to give up that easily, so they united together and miraculously fended off the Persian Empire's invasion.

Explanation: The Persian Wars united the Greeks together due to having a common enemy. This war also made Greece stronger and improved its communication between different city-states. Since the Greeks defeated the strongest empire at that time, this made them have the strongest military power in the world.

Chris She & Steven Cao 7A

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2. The Delian League That Made Greeks United

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2. The Delian League That Made Greeks United

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1. Description:
The Delian League is what the Greek city-states formed to protect their overseas trade.
2. Explanation:
The Delian League formed by Greek city-states made Greece united. This is the start of the war in which all of the city-states fight for Athen's powers.

By Chelsea Ren & Lucy Yao

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3. Pericles' Rule = The Golden Age of Athens (460 BC)

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3. Pericles' Rule = The Golden Age of Athens (460 BC)

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Description: Pericles led Athens to its golden age, the peak of its civilization; that is why he's great and why he's remembered.

Explanation: Pericles led Athens to its highest point making Athens more beautiful, stronger, and more powerful. Athens united the Greek city-states by democracy and led Greece to its decline by war.

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The Image above shows that the Athens successfully "stole" the Delian leagues treasury.

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4. Athens steals the money: 454 BC (Eric Zhu and Kevin Zhao)

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4. Athens steals the money: 454 BC (Eric Zhu and Kevin Zhao)

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Event: Pericles moved the Delian League and its treasures to Athens for protection, but instead of giving this money to update and improve the defence force, Athens used much of the treasure to glorify the city of Athens.

Importance: This action of stealing and misusing money later caused many city states to fear the Athens, as Athens also started treating the other members of the league as if they were conquered people, not allies. The final result of this action is the Sparta-Athens war.

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5. The war that divides Ancient Greece city-states: 431 BC

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5. The war that divides Ancient Greece city-states: 431 BC

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Emina and April Song

Description:
The Peloponnesian War was fought between two of the most powerful city-states at the time, Sparta and Athens. The image above shows an Athenian soldier fighting against a Spartan soldier.
Importance:
The Peloponnesian war symbols the loss of balance between Ancient Greece city-states, which is mainly between Athens and Sparta. Athens, once powerful, was devastated and Sparta became the new leader of Greece. The balance between them and the bond between all city-states had been broken because of this civil war.

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Description: Pericles honored all of the soldiers who died in the Peloponnesian war. The speech also complimented the Democracy of Athens because their citizens could be a part of the government no matter finances. In the photo, Pericles is not pointing at the dead body, but at the city of Athens itself. He says that this city is worth fighting and dying for.

Explanation: The reason this speech is most famous amongst all others is that during a time of despite, Pericles praises Athens. Pericles' funeral oration stated that Athens is superior to Sparta. Pericles praises democracy and states that the warriors of Athens die not because they are forced to but because they want to sacrifice for their city. Pericles praises the dead Athenian bodies below him so that people will imitate. Pericles gives the Athenians hope and motivation so that this city will keep on moving (even though they lost).

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Danny Li and Mendy Yuan

Description: This meme shows Pericles before his death, infected with the virus. Pericles is weak and vulnerable lying in his bed, with servants and family around looking after him.

Explanation: A victim of the plague that swept Athens in 430 B.C., was Pericles himself. In 430 B.C., the plague seized Pericles with a dull lingering distemper, which took away all strengths from his body and undermined his soul. Pericles's death caused Athens to lose their most influential and important leader. This later leads to Athens losing to Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.

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Describe: The figure in front is portrayed as Phillip II of Macedon, his shadow overcomes the Greece. The culture of Greece is still there, but only not as strong as before.

Explanation: Before Philip defeats Greece, Hellenism could only be seen in the country of Greece. But when Philip II of Macedon conquers Greece, Hellenism is spread around in the West.

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King Phillip is being murdered and Alexander becomes the new leader, replacing King Phillip II.

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10: The Rise of a Conquer Master: 336 BC

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10: The Rise of a Conquer Master: 336 BC

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Event:
King Philip II was murdered during his daughter's wedding and Alexander the Great became the ruler of Greece.

Explanation:
Alexander the Great helped spread Hellenism by conquering multiple lands and blending different cultures together, being the most powerful conquerer in ancient history.

Cathy & Yvonnie

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Description for the picture:

Alexander takes over Persia and become the best conqueror in the world. In his territory, he spreads the greek culture Hellenism.

Explanation of how this event affected the expansion of Hellenism.

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12. New Greek World (After Alexander's death)

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12. New Greek World (After Alexander's death)

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The picture above shows the Hellenistic Empires split from Alexander's kingdom. Alexander was a conqueror but was not a governor. After he died, his generals continued to rule over non-Greeks (they split Alexander's kingdom into three major parts) while spreading Hellenistic culture.

Explanation: This event is important because the spreading of Hellenism made it the dominant Mediterranean culture for many of the following civilizations. For example, the forms of their government (a monarchy with roots from Mycenean Greece) and the language (Greek) they speak were largely based on the Greeks.

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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.