+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TIME-TABLE OF THE WORLD: B.C. 500 to 1 | | | | Collision of East and West. The Glory of Greece. Alexander and | His Conquests. The Rise of Rome. Overthrow of Carthage and the | | Establishment of the Roman Empire | +-----+--------------------------+-----------------------------+-----+ | B.C.| The East and Africa | Europe | B.C.| | 500 | GREECE: Revolt of Ionian | GREECE: Repulse of Persia | 500 | | | Greeks from Persia, | at Marathon (490), | | | | 499. | Salamis (480) and Plataea | | | | Liberation from Persia | (479) and of Carthage by | | | | of Greek States in | Syracuse at Himera (480). | | | | Asia Minor. | | | | | | ROME: Increase of political | | | | Revolt of Egypt from | power of Plebeians. | | | | Persia: re-conquest. | Tribunes. First Roman | | | | | Legal Code (the XII. | | | | | Tables). | | | 450 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ 450 | | | | GREECE: Age of Pericles, | | | | | the great Athenian | | | | Egypt again independent | dramatists, and Phidias. | | | | of Persia. | Struggle for supremacy | | | | | between Athens and | | | | | Sparta. | | | | | ROME: Decadence of Etruscan | | | | | power. | | | | | Progress of Plebeians in | | | | | obtaining administrative | | | | | power. | | | 400 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ 400 | | | | GREECE: Socrates and Plato. | | | | | Spartan and Theban | | | | | supremacies. | | | | | ROME: Invasion by the Gauls.| | | | | The land question: the | | | | | Licinian Laws. | | | | | Establishment of new | | | | | “Senatorial” oligarchy. | | | | Revival of Persian | Extension of Roman | |