Western Civilization Dates/People for Exam 1

Battle of Marathon

490 BC, First Persian War, King Darius, phalanx surprises persians

Battle of Thermopylae

480 BC, Leonidas, Sparta vs Persia, Athens evacuated but burnt

Battle of Salamis

480 BC, naval battle, Themistocles, changed the tide, cut off persian supplies

Pax Romana

27BC-180 AD

Eratosthenes

Circumference of the earth (276-194 BC)

Archimedes

mass displaces= mass of water, Eureka moment (287-212 BC)

Struggle of Orders

494-287 BC

1st Persian War

492-490 BC, Marathon, Darius

2nd Persian War

481-479 BC, Thermopylae and Salamis, Xerxes

Aeschylus

Well know Tragedian, 525-464 BC

1st Punic War

264-241 BC

2nd Persian War

218-201 BC, Hannibal and his elephants, Rome has to bring the war to Carthage to end it

3rd Persian War

 149-146 BC, Cato “Carthage must be destroyed”

Herodotus

484-425 BC, Father of History, Confirms story with people, Attributes things to gods, Persian Wars

Thucydides

460-400 BC, more synthesis/analysis, less about gods, Peloponnesian Wars

12 tables

449 BC

Erasistratus

Heart pump and nervous system

Hippocratus

Father of Medicine, Disease has a physical cause

Phidias

Sculptor of Athena

Sarissa

long spear added to phalanx by Philip 2nd of Macedonia

Alexander the Great

r. 334-323

Phillip the 2nd of Macedonia

sets Alexander up for success, assasinated 336 BC, league of Corinth

Xenephon

student of Socrates, writes anabis

Polybius

Ancient greek historian, cycle of governemental decay

Classical Greece

510-323 BC

Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, Alexander dies

Hellenistic Greece

323 BC-30BC

Death of Alexander to Death of Cleopatra

Archaic Greece

800-510BC

city states-solon, cleisthenes, pericles

Dark Age

1100-800 BC

1st Triumvirate

Caesar, Pompey, Crassus

2nd Triumvirate

Augustus, Mark Antony, Lepidus