| Term | Definition |
|---|
| 800 to 600 B.C. | expansion (especially of trade) |
| 750 to 550 B.C. | colonization |
| 600 to 500s B.C. | tyranny |
| 730 B.C. | Sparta decides to conter Messenia because of good farmland |
| 800 to 600 B.C. | Reforms of Lycurgus |
| 6th century B.C. | Peloponnesian League dominated by Sparta |
| 700 B.C. | Athens develops as a polis |
| 600s B.C. | Athens ruled by oligarchy/aristocracy |
| 621 B.C. | Draco |
| 594 B.C. | Solon becomes sole archon |
| 560 B.C. | Pisistratus |
| 527 to 510 B.C. | Hippias |
| mid 500s B.C. | Ionians fall to Lydians |
| 499 B.C. | Ionian Revolt |
| 494 B.C. | Ionian Revolt put down; sworn vengeance |
| 490 B.C. | the Battle of Marathon (Darius attacks mainland Greece) |
| 480 B.C. | Persians return; Greeks ready with triremes (Battle of Thermophylae) |
| 479 B.C. | Greeks win war with Persia |
| 478 to 477 B.C. | Delian League |
| 469 B.C. | Persians permanently defeated |
| 500 to 338 B.C. | Classical Greece |
| 461 to 427 B.C. | Periclean Athens |
| 600 B.C. | Thales |
| 580 to 490 B.C. | Pythagoras |
| 400s B.C. | Athenian Sophists |
| 469 to 399 B.C. | Socrates |
| 429 to 347 B.C. | Plato |
| 384 to 322 B.C. | Aristotle |
| 461 to 429 B.C. | Pericles elected from... |
| 445 B.C. | Athens uses treasures of Delian League to beautify Athens (Parthenon built); truce with Sparta |
| 460 to 445 B.C. | First Peloponnesian War |
| 431 to 404 B.C. | Great Peloponnesian War |
| 422 B.C. | Cleon elected |
| 420 B.C. | Alcibiades becomes a general |
| 413 B.C. | Athens defeated at Sicily (Syracuse) |
| 404 B.C. | Battle of Aegospotami - Sparta destroys Athens' fleet near the Hellespont |
| 400 to 338 B.C. | steady decline |
| 338 B.C. | Phillip of Macedonia |
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