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Greece Cilvilzation - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 776 BC: Traditional date for the first Olympic Games
      - c. 750: Greek cities start planting colonies on other Mediterranean coasts, adapt the Phoenician alphabet for their own use, and later adopt metal coinage from Lydia, in Asia Minor
      - 594: Solon gives Athens a new constitution; this is the start of the rise of democracy in Greece
      - 490-479: The Persian Wars – Athens and Sparta lead the Greeks in defending their land against invasion from the huge Persian Empire
      - 447: Work begins on the Parthenon in Athens, then at the height of its glory
      - 431-404: The Second Peloponnesian War – Athens is defeated by Sparta, which now becomes the leading power in Greece
      - 399: The Athenian philosopher Socrates is condemned to death for questioning conventional ideas
      - 338: King Philip II of Macedon defeats the Greek city-states and imposes his dominion on them.
      - Copied From :Time, Maps. “The Civilization of the Ancient Greeks.” TimeMaps, 5 Feb. 2020, www.timemaps.com/civilizations/ancient-greeks/.