550

BC

520 B.C.- The Persians
gained control of the
Greek colonies on Asia
Minor

= Athenss Golden Age

= Peloponnesian Wars
= The Greco-Persian Wars
480 B.C. - The

Acropolis was
destroyed

470 B.C. - Socrates is
460 B.C. - Pericles
born in Athens
becomes a leader
in Athens

399 B.C. - Socrates

was forced to drink
poison and died
387 B.C. Plato
founded the Academy
in Athens
Ancient Greece Timeline

359 B.C.- Philip

359 B.C.- Aristotle of Macedon
lays the foundation became king
of musical theory
Scale

328 B.C. - Alexander the

Greats empire reached
1 in. = 25 years

its peak in northern India

301 B.C:
Alexanders
empire is divided

525 BC 500 BC 475 BC 450 BC 425 BC 400 BC 375 BC 350 BC 325 BC 300 BC
 Answers to the Questions
1. No, Alexanders empire was not divided during the life of Socrates because Socrates died in 399 BC and Alexanders
empire did not divide until 301 BC.

2. No, the Academy in Athens was not founded during the golden age of ancient Greece because the Academy was
founded in 387 BC before the golden age of ancient Greece.

3. No, Plato was not alive during the Persian War because Plato founded the Academy in 387 BC and the Persian War
was over in 479 BC, so if he was alive during the war, he would be 92 years old when he founded the Academy.
So most likely not.


4. The Persians probably destroyed the Acropolis because the Persian War finished in 479 BC and the Acropolis was
destroyed in 480 BC.