MONARCHY
Spartan Kings & Ephors
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
Solon
Tyranny
Cleisthenes (re-draws tribal org.)
Aristagoras (Ionian uprising starts war with Darius 498)
Democracy
Pericles (495 429)
Polis
Deme (‘hoods)
Ekklesia (all free males) Boule (tribal council – 50 from each)
Persian Wars (547 – 478) Ionian Revolt
Aryans, Medes, Iranians, Kurds
(Herodotus / Thucydides / Xenophon - Anabasis)
Marathon (490) – Thermopylae (480) – Plataea (479) & the Delian League
Darius Xerxes
(Pericles moves Delian treasury to Athens 454)
Peloponnesian Wars (431 – 404)
Cyrus the Younger hires Greek mercenaries (14,000) to fight his brother Artaxerxes 401
Phillip of Macedon unifies Greece (d.336)
Alexander the Great (356 – 323)
Darius III
Hellenism
The Diadochi (Successors):
Seleucus – Ptolemy – Antigonus – Perdiccus – Antipater
Old Persia -Egypt -Macedonia -Regent & Regent Died in office (assassin?)
Syria Assassinated
Asoka and Alexander the Great
http://youtu.be/zliLtnaBtGg
Asoka.
http://youtu.be/DTuNKCU0oLE
Spartan Kings & Ephors
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
Solon
Tyranny
Cleisthenes (re-draws tribal org.)
Aristagoras (Ionian uprising starts war with Darius 498)
Democracy
Pericles (495 429)
Polis
Deme (‘hoods)
Ekklesia (all free males) Boule (tribal council – 50 from each)
Persian Wars (547 – 478) Ionian Revolt
Aryans, Medes, Iranians, Kurds
(Herodotus / Thucydides / Xenophon - Anabasis)
Marathon (490) – Thermopylae (480) – Plataea (479) & the Delian League
Darius Xerxes
(Pericles moves Delian treasury to Athens 454)
Peloponnesian Wars (431 – 404)
Cyrus the Younger hires Greek mercenaries (14,000) to fight his brother Artaxerxes 401
Phillip of Macedon unifies Greece (d.336)
Alexander the Great (356 – 323)
Darius III
Hellenism
The Diadochi (Successors):
Seleucus – Ptolemy – Antigonus – Perdiccus – Antipater
Old Persia -Egypt -Macedonia -Regent & Regent Died in office (assassin?)
Syria Assassinated
Asoka and Alexander the Great
http://youtu.be/zliLtnaBtGg
Asoka.
http://youtu.be/DTuNKCU0oLE