1. The Rise of the Golden Age of Greece
despite the lack of natural resources
By: Channing Schoneberger

2. Questions:
What contributed to the rise of the Golden Age of Greece?
What contributed to the fall of Greece or the end of its Golden Age?

3. Ancient Greece

4. Greece

5. Contributing Factors:
Geographical
Districts or City-States were separated from the next by mountains or the sea. – Hard to subject a large population to a single ruler and function in a unified system.
The people were force to be not specialists in his trait or profession, but a master of a wide range of crafts and accomplishments.

6. A Time Line to the Golden Age
776 BCE – First Olympic Games
594 BCE - Solon (Statesman, Lawmaker, and Poet) replaces the Draconian law in Athens and lays the foundation for Democracy. He introduced to Athens the first coinage and a system of weights and measures
510 BCE - Alcmaeonid family (Pericles) and Spartans free Athens from tyranny. Introduction of Democracy.

7. The Golden Age
508 BCE - Kleisthenes begins reforming Athenian code of laws, and establishes a democratic constitution
499 BCE – Ionian Revolt
494 BCE – Ionian revolt defeated by Persians
BCE – Persian Wars
490 BCE - Battle of Marathon, Athenians defeat Darius and his Persian army
480 BCE - Xerxes marches on Greece, Battle of Thermopylae, Persians burn the Acropolis, Athens and allies defeat Persian fleet at naval battle of Salamis
477 BCE - Delian league (Association of Greek City-States) lead by Athens

8. The Golden Age 461-445 BCE – First Peloponnesian War
449 BCE - Acropolis and other major building projects begin in Athens, Construction of Parthenon ( ), Sophocles produces the tragedy "Ajax”
446 BCE - Thirty-year peace treaty signed between Athens and Sparta in winter 446/445
431BCE - Peloponnesian War ( ) resumes Euripides produces "Medea" in Athens
430 BCE - Plague epidemic in Athens
429 BCE - Death of Pericles
420 BCE - Construction of Temple of Athena ( )

9. The Golden Age
418 BCE - Athenians resume hostilities Spartans defeat Athens at Mantinea
416 BCE - Athens razes Melos
415 BCE - Athens expedition to Syracuse Alcibiades defects to Sparta
413 BCE - Syracuse defeats Athens
404 BCE - Athens surrenders to Sparta
403 BCE - Democracy restored in Athens
399 BCE - Trial and execution of Socrates
380 BCE – Plato establishes The Academy
371 BCE - Sparta defeated in Leuctra
362 BCE - Thebes defeats Sparta at Mantinea (Sparta Falls)
338 BCE - Macedonian army defeats Athens and its allies at Chaeronea League of Corinth founded

10. The Golden Age 336 BCE - Phillip II Assassinated.
Alexander the Great becomes king of Macedonia
334 BCE - Alexander the Great defeats Persian army at Granicus river in Anatolia
333 BCE - Alexander the Great defeats Persians at Issus
331 BCE - Alexander invades Egypt, City of Alexandria founded in Egypt, Alexander defeats Persians at Gaugamela
329 BCE - Alexander's army reaches Bactria (Afghanistan)
326 BCE - Alexander's army reaches India
The End of the Golden Age
323 BCE – The death of Alexander the Great

11. The End of the Golden Age
Sparta was militaristic and xenophobic
Athens was dynamic and open to the world.
These ideological differences between the two Greek superpowers, it was inevitable that mutual mistrust would start a civil war.
The Death of Alexander the Great

12. Resources
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