World History Chapter 3: 600-300 B.C. Section 4: 500-400 B.C. Political History
By Dallin Hardy 5th Century B.C.
500-400 B.C. Athens
Athens
Religious and civic center
Agora
Marketplace
Persia
Royal Road
5th century B.C.
Ionian Greeks
Asia Minor
Sought independence Ionian Revolt
499-493 B.C.
Against Persian rule Persian Wars
Greco-Persian Wars 499-479 B.C.
Greeks vs. Persians First Persian Invasion 492 B.C.
Second Persian Invasion
490 B.C.
Battle of Marathon
490 B.C. Marathon Run Version #1
Ran from Marathon to Athens
26.2 Miles Marathon Run Version #2
Pheidippides
Ran from Marathon to Sparta to ask for help
140 Miles
2 Days
Xerxes I
486-465 B.C.
King of Persia Greek League
Greek city-states
Resist
Persian invasion Themistocles
Athenian general Building the Athenian Navy
483 B.C.
Third Persian Invasion
480 B.C.
Led by
Xerxes
Athens’ “Wooden Wall”
480 B.C.
Battle of Thermopylae
480 B.C.
300 Spartans
Led by
King Leonidas Defended
Thermopylae
Burning of Athens
480 B.C.
By the Persians Battle of Salamis
480 B.C. Results Athenian victory Trireme
5th & 4th centuries B.C.
Dominated
Naval warfare
Pausanias
Spartan general
Battle of Plataea
479 B.C.
Last major battle of
Persian Wars
Results of the Persian Wars
Greek victory
Saved
Western Civilization
Athens
Golden Age of Athens
480 B.C. to 404 B.C. Delian League
478 B.C.
Alliance of city-states
Aegean Sea Led by
Athens Delos
Delian League’s
Meeting-ground
Treasury
Ostracism of Themistocles
472 B.C.
Persian Empire
465-424 B.C.
King of Persia Athens
Cimon
Soldier and statesman Led Athens after
Persian Wars Thasian Rebellion
465 B.C. Ostracism of Cimon
461 B.C. Pericles
461-429 B.C.
Athenian Statesman
“First citizen of Athens”
First Peloponnesian War
460-445 B.C.
Between
Peloponnesian League
Delian League Age of Pericles
461-429 B.C.
Expansion of
Democracy Long Walls
458 B.C. Relocation of the Treasury
454 B.C.
Delian League
To
Athens
Pericles’ Reconstruction Plan
447 B.C.
Thirty Years’ Peace
445 B.C.
Between
Athens
Sparta
Officially ended
First Peloponnesian War Pericles’ Athens
432 B.C.
Athenian Empire
431-404 B.C.
Emerged from
Delian League
Athens on the Eve of War
431 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
Peloponnesian War
431-404 B.C.
Siege of Athens
431-421 B.C. Funeral Oration 431 B.C. Pericles
430 B.C.
Killed 1/3 of the population
Athenian Mob Rule
420s B.C.
Peace of Nicias
421 B.C.
Peace treaty between
Athens
Sparta Persian Empire
Death of Artaxerxes I
424 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
Athenian general
Persuaded
Athenians
To attack Sicily Sicilian Expedition
415-413 B.C.
Athens sought to conquer
Syracuse
Spartan-Persian Alliance
413 B.C. Lysander
Commander of the
Spartan fleet Fall of Athens
404 B.C.
Results of the Peloponnesian War
Ended
Athenian Empire
Rule of Thirty Tyrants
404-403 B.C. Rome
Cincinnatus 458 B.C. Roman dictator
Relinquished power
Decemvirs
450 B.C.
Council of Ten
Twelve Tables 450 B.C.
First code of laws
Roman Constitution
Marcus Furius Camillus
“Second Founder of Rome”
Triumphs of Camillus