WC Term Two Timeline

Reforms the idea of democracy by splitting Athens into ten groups based on where you live. Increase power of the ecclesia. Creates the assembly of Athenian citizens who ran the government. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Cleisthenes.jpg/220px-Cleisthenes.jpg

A war between the Greek city states and the Persian Empire. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/14/88/5e/14885ea51df5e5cf9800d4cd109b97d4.jpg

25,000 Persians vs. 11,000 Athenians. Pheidippides runs 25 miles. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/docroot/dulcinea/fd_images/news/on-this-day/September-October-08/On-this-Day--Athens-Defeats-Persian-Army-at-the-Battle-of-Marathon/news/0/image.jpg

Battle of Thermopylae. Battle of Artemisia. Battle of Salamis. Delian League. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Xerxes_Image.png/220px-Xerxes_Image.png

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Politician who lead Athens. https://www.biography.com/.image/c_fill,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,g_face,h_300,q_80,w_300/MTIwNjA4NjMzOTQwNjQxMjky/pericles-9437722-1-402.jpg

12 Tables- Roman laws carved onto stone tablets. http://www.crystalinks.com/Twelve-Tables.jpg

War breaks out between Athens and Sparta. http://www.historiarex.com/uploads/files/1438392476.jpg

Macedonians invade and defeat Greeks ends Greek independence. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CKgwOUyyxVI/maxresdefault.jpg

Alexander The Great invades Persia. He took the Granicus River in 334 BC. https://deadliestblogpage.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/granico.jpg

Alexander the Great invades Issus. http://www.livius.org/site/assets/files/1508/alexander_mosaic.jpg

Persia is defeated again, Alexander then captures Babylon, Susa, Persepolis. http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Battle-of-Gaugamela-Alexander-the-Great-vs.-Darius-III-7.jpg

Alexander conquers parts of Indus Valley. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/6f/13/78/6f13780440102473e97fc203102c2c44.jpg

3 wars between Rome and Carthage. http://www.crystalinks.com/PunicWars1.jpg

Roman general during 2nd Punic War. Outsmarts Hannibal by bringing the war to Carthage. Defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama. http://www.livius.org/site/assets/files/5994/scipio_africanus_cm2.jpg

Caesar declared himself dictator for life. http://i.infopls.com/images/ceasar.jpg

Ends Roman Republic https://static.artuk.org/w944h944/WMR/WMR_APH_N070473.jpg

Falls because it’s weakened by internal conflict and civil wars. http://www.reallycoolblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/caesar_death.jpg

“Roman peace”. Rome’s peak. https://wilsonancientrome.wikispaces.com/file/view/pax.jpg/229264710/315x216/pax.jpg

Emperor Nero blamed the Christians. http://www.archeoguidaroma.com/sites/default/files/blog/incendio-roma-64.jpg

Law from Emperor Constantine that legalized Christianity. https://medievalmilanetc.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/313ad-milanedicta.jpg?w=222&h=300

Writes the Nicaea Creed- Statement of beliefs of the Christian church. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/THE_FIRST_COUNCIL_OF_NICEA.jpg/300px-THE_FIRST_COUNCIL_OF_NICEA.jpg

Moves capital to Byzantium but renamed it Constantine-”City of Constantine”. https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/85/3985-004-B19ED166.jpg

Emperor Theodosius makes Christianity official religion of the empire. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UuHBW8xqCzw/TxZgqvwJ9UI/AAAAAAAAASM/nLkeaCcFkVc/s1600/Theodosius-1.jpg

Inflation, population decline, military turmoil, etc. Germanic tribes pushed into Rome by Huns. Can’t support/fend for itself. http://www.kyteacher.org/uploads/3/9/0/8/3908888/511048.jpg?479