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17 Cards in this Set
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Ionian revolt against Persian control
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499-494 BC
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Darius I sends Persian force against Athens; battle of Marathon
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490 BC
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Xerxes leads Persian invasion of Greece; battles of Thermopylae and Salamis
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480 BC
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Athens assumes leadership of Delian League
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477 BC
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Life of Socrates
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469-399 BC
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Ephialtes' political and judicial reforms strengthen Athenian democracy
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461 BC
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Aeschylus presents the trilogy Oresteia
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458 BC
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The sophist Protagoras comes to Athens
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450 BC
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Pericles starts construction of the Parthenon
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447 BC
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Athens and Sparta sign a peace treaty ment to last thirty years
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446-445 BC
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Peloponnesian War begins between Athens and Sparta
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431 BC
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Herodotus fineshes the Histories
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428-425 BC
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Alcibiades leads Athenian expedition against Sparta's Allies in Sicily
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415-413 BC
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Aristophanes presents the comedy Lysistrata
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411 BC
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Athens surrenders to Sparta ending the Peloponnesian War
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404 BC
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Thirty Tyrants suspend democracy at Athens and coduct a reign of terror
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404-403 BC
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Athenians overthrow the Thirty Tyrants and restore democracy
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403 BC
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