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  1. //  Greece
  2.  
  3. #bc
  4.  
  5.  
  6. //  9th century B.C.
  7.  
  8. #p <nat>Greek<o>writer<n>Homer<b>880(25)<d>800(25)
  9. #e <t>writing<au>Homer<tit>Iliad & Odyssey<d>820(25)<c>Greece
  10.  
  11.  
  12. //  8th century B.C.
  13.  
  14. #e <t>disc<n>magnetism & static electricity<d>700<c>Greece<info>attraction of magnetite to iron, and charging of amber
  15.  
  16.  
  17. //  7th century B.C.
  18.  
  19.  
  20. //  6th century B.C.
  21.  
  22. #e <t>experiment<n>Greeks study magnetism<c>Greece<d>600
  23.  
  24. #p <nat>Greek<o>philosopher<o>mathematician<n>Pythagoras<b>565(5)<d>497(1)<info>Ionian
  25.  
  26.  
  27. //  5th century B.C.
  28.  
  29. #e <t>period<n>Golden Age of Greece<d>500<e>320<c>Greece
  30.  
  31. #e <t>battle<n>Marathon<d>490<c>Marathon
  32.  
  33. #p <nat>Greek<o>poet<n>Sophocles<b>496<d>406
  34.  
  35. #p <nat>Greek<o>writer<n>Euripides<b>484<d>406
  36.  
  37. #p <nat>Greek<o>historian<n>Herodotus<b>484<d>425<info>called the "father of history"
  38.  
  39. #p <nat>Greek<o>philosopher<n>Socrates<b>469(2)<d>399
  40.  
  41. #p <nat>Greek<o>physician<n>Hippocrates<b>460(2)<d>365(5)<info>called the "father of medicine"
  42.  
  43. #p <nat>Greek<o>philosopher<n>Plato<b>427<d>347
  44.  
  45.  
  46. //  4th century B.C.
  47.  
  48. #e <t>use<n>carrier pigeons<c>Greece<d>400
  49.  
  50. #p <nat>Greek<o>philosopher<n>Aristotle<b>384<d>322 
  51.  
  52. #p <nat>Greek<o>mathematician<n>Euclid<b>375(25)<d>275(25)
  53. #e <t>pub<au>Euclid<tit>Stoicheia (Elements)<d>323
  54. #e <t>pub<au>Euclid<tit>Catoptrics<info>states the law of reflection<d>300(10)
  55.  
  56. #p <nat>Greek<o>astronomer<n>Aristarchus<c>Samos<b>310(10)<d>230<info>first argued that earth revolves around sun
  57.  
  58.  
  59. //  3rd century B.C.
  60.  
  61. #p <nat>Greek<o>astronomer<n>Eratosthenes<b>276(2)<d>195(2)<c>Alexandria 
  62. #e <t>disc<au>Eratosthenes<n>earth's circumference<d>220(20)
  63.  
  64. #p <nat>Greek<o>philosopher<o>mathematician<o>inventor<n>Archimedes<b>287<d>212<c>Syracuse  
  65. #e <t>misc<au>Archimedes<n>Archimedes cries, "Eureka."<d>250
  66.  
  67.  
  68. //  2nd century B.C.
  69.  
  70. #p <nat>Greek<o>astronomer<n>Hipparchus<c>Rhodes<b>160<d>127
  71. #e <t>inv<au>Hipparchus<n>trigonometry<d>150
  72.  
  73.  
  74. //  1st century B.C.
  75.  
  76. #p <nat>Greek<o>astronomer<n>Sosigenes<c>Alexandria<d>20(20)
  77. #e <t>invent<au>Sosigenes<n>the Julian calendar<d>46
  78.  
  79. #e <t>inv<n>Hero's steam engine<c>Alexandria<d>50
  80.  
  81.  
  82. #ad
  83.  
  84. //  1st century A.D.
  85.  
  86. #p <nat>Greek<o>historian<n>Plutarch<b>46(2)<d>120(2)
  87.