timeline+of+people

Draco- 650 BC -harsh set rules to correct Athens laws -repealed by Solon

Solon- 594 -revised Draconian laws -freed debt slaves

Pesistratos- 561 -tyrant -made Boule (council 500)

Cyrus- 550 BC -first king of Persia

Hippias- 527 to 525 BC -paranoid son of peisistratos -killed by rebels and spartans

Kleisthenes- 508 BC -Persians would benefit Athens -10 tribes

Herodotus- 499 -father of history -document battles, etc.

Pericles- 495-429 -during golden age -turned Delian League into Athenian Empire

Darius- 490 -third king of Persia -attacked Athenians at Marathon (defeated L ) -planned another attack towards them but died before

Xerxes- 480 -fourth king of Persia -led army of Persia at Thermopylae (defeated L )

Socrates- 470-399 BC -‘greatest and smartest man to ever live’ -put on trial and to death -socratic method- take apart ideas through questionings

Alcibiades- 461 -student of Socrates -2nd Peloponnesian War -Athens--- à Sparta-- à Persia

Alexander the great- 232 BC -burn thebes to take control -conquested almost every territory -expanded empire too fast

Plato- -student of Socrates -real vs ideal world -started the Academy

Aristotle- -student under Plato and attended academy -tutors Alexander the Great

Philip- -Macedonia -took control of Hellenistic Greece after Alexander -mentally handicapped -split empire into four districts of Egypt, Persia, Asia Minor, and Greece