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GETTING TO KNOW THE ANCIENT GREEKS Empire
The peoples from the ancient Greek cities captured parts of many neighbouring lands, and formed an empire whose people used the Greek language. For a short while, under the leadership of alexanDer tHe great, the empire swelled from lands along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to include Egypt and also
Asia as far as northern India. It was a huge empire for such a small country (picture 4).
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ARABIA
0 500 1000 km
INDIA
EGYPT
5 Ancient Greek timeline.
About 750 –780 bc
The first Olympic Games.
800 bc
Ancient Greek written history begins.
Around 800 bc
One of the world’s most famous poets, Homer, begins the stories called ‘The Iliad’ and the ‘Odyssey’.
480 bc Battle of Salamis
490 bc Battle of Marathon
508 bc
Athens brings in the system of voting we call democracy.
600 bc
1000 bc
700 bc
4 The empire of Alexander the Great. BLACK SEA
C ASPIAN SEA
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
800 bc
1100–800 bc Prehistoric Greece (no written records) 800–500 bc ArchAen Period 6
