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Greco-Persian Wars - Academic Kids (870 words) |
 | In 513 BC Darius for the first time conquered Thrace and Macedonia. |
| But the conquest of Asia Minor (546 BC) left the Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, while the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or later. |
| In 499 BC, instigated by Aristagoras in Miletus, the Ionian Revolt broke out; Ionian cities threw out the "tyrants" that the Persians had set over them, formed a league, and applied for help from the other Greeks. |
| 6th century BC: Information from Answers.com (6216 words) |
| B.C., but Pythagoras demonstrates that in a right triangle (one with a 90° angle) the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides (Pythagorean theorem), a concept known to the ancient Chinese and Hindus and applied by 18th century |
| B.C. The Etruscans are a civilized people who believe in an afterlife, but legend will relate the uprising to the rape of Lucretia, beautiful and virtuous wife of the Roman general Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, by Sextus Tarquinius, a son of the king Tarquinius Superbus. |
| Pisistratus, Tyrant of Athens in 561 BC, 559 BC–556 BC and 546 BC–528 BC. |
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