Cleisthenes in 508 BCE institutes the world's…

621 BCE to 478 BCE

Cleisthenes in 508 BCE institutes the world's first democratic system of government in Athens.

By 500 BCE, the Persian Empire controls the Greek city states in Asia Minor and Macedonia.

Attempts by some of the Greek city-states of Asia Minor to overthrow Persian rule fail, and Persia invades the states of mainland Greece in 492 BCE, but is forced to withdraw after a defeat at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE.

A second invasion by the Persians follows in 480 BCE.

Following decisive Greek victories in 480 and 479 BCE at Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale, the Persians are forced to withdraw for a second time, marking their eventual withdrawal from all of their European territories.

Led by Athens and Sparta, the Greek victories in the Greco-Persian Wars are considered a pivotal moment in world history, as the fifty years of peace that follow  are known as the Golden Age of Athens, the seminal period of ancient Greek development that lays many of the foundations of Western civilization.

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Athens, City-State of View → Thebes, City-State of View → Tegea, City-State of View → Priene, Greek City-State of View → Lesbos, Greek City-State of View → Rhodes, City-States of View → Miletus (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Colophon, Greek City-state of View → Kos, (Greek) city-state of View → Ephesus (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Greece, classical View → Persian people View → Sicyon, Greek city-state of View → Magnesia on the Maeander, Greek City-State of View → Halicarnassus, Greek City-State of View → Paros (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Naxos (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Sparta, Kingdom of View → Chalcis, City-State of View → Phocaea (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Corinth, City-State of View → Greeks, Classical View → Segesta, (Elymian-Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Zancle (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Cumae, Euboean Greek city-state of View → Neapolis (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Magna Graecia View → Rhegium, Greek city-state of View → Naxos (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of View → Catana (Euboean Greek) city-state of View → Sybaris (Achaean Greek) city-state of View → Croton (Achaean Greek) city-state of View → Taras (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Macedon, Argead Kingdom of View → Gela (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Byzantium (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Selinus, (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Himera, (Dorian-Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Cyrene View → Achaemenid Empire View → Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire View →

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Persian Revolt View → Greco-Persian Wars, Early View → Persian Invasion of Greece, First View → Marathon, Battle of View → Persian Invasion of Greece, Second View → Salamis, Battle of View → Plataea, Battle of View → Mycale, Battle of View →

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