Chapter 4 Review: Important Events
| 399 B.C.E. | Socrates is executed |
| 386 B.C.E. | In King’s Peace, Sparta surrenders control of Anatolian Greek city-states to Persia; Plato founds Academy |
| 362 B.C.E. | Battle of Mantinea leaves power vacuum in a disunited Greece |
| 338 B.C.E. | Battle of Chaeronea allows Macedonian Philip II to become the leading power in Greece |
| 335 B.C.E. | Aristotle founds Lyceum |
| 334–323 B.C.E. | Alexander the Great leads Greeks and Macedonians to conquer Persian Empire |
| 307 B.C.E. | Epicurus founds his philosophical group in Athens |
| 306–304 B.C.E. | Successors of Alexander declare themselves kings |
| 300–260 B.C.E. | Theocritus writes poetry at Ptolemaic court |
| c. 300 B.C.E. | Euclid teaches geometry at Alexandria |
| 195 B.C.E. | Seleucid queen Laodice endows dowries for girls |
| 167 B.C.E. | Maccabee revolt after Antiochus IV turns temple in Jerusalem into a Greek sanctuary |
| 30 B.C.E. | Cleopatra VII dies and Rome takes over Ptolemaic Empire |
Consider three events: Alexander the Great leads Greeks and Macedonians to conquer Persian Empire (334–323 B.C.E.), Epicurus founds his philosophical group in Athens (307 B.C.E.), and Euclid teaches geometry at Alexandria (c. 300 B.C.E.). How might Alexander’s expeditions have influenced developments in politics, philosophy, and science?