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For Jean Longstaff, with thanks
Scholastic Childrens Books,
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First published in the UK by Scholastic Ltd, 1996
This electronic edition published 2011
Some of the material in this book has previously been published in
Horrible Histories: The Awesome Ancient Quiz Book
Text Terry Deary, 1996, 2001
Illustrations Martin Brown, 1996, 2001
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History can be horrible. And do you know who to blame?
No, its the Greeks!
The Greeks invented history about 2,500 years ago
Inventing history is just one of the things we have to thank them for. They had the idea for plays, for the Olympic Games even the camera
Funny you should mention that. Here is a book on the groovy Greeks. A book that will tell you all the things that teacher doesnt tell you. The things you really want to know. The hilarious stories and the horror stories.
BC
1600 1200 First Greek civilizations, ruled by the mighty Mycenaean lords of Crete.
About 1180 The siege of Troy Troy loses to the famous wooden horse trick.
About 1100 The state of Sparta starts.
First recorded Olympic games.
About 750 550 Greeks take to the seas and become great traders.
About 730 Greeks produce the first works of written poetry in the world. Groovy Homer is the most famous.
Worlds first roof tiles manufactured at Temple of Hera at Olympia.
About 600 Thales, the Greek scientist, announces that the entire earth is actually floating in water.
Scientist Thales predicts an eclipse of the sun.
About 550 First plays performed. King Croesus of Lydia has gold and silver coins made; the first coins with writing on them.
About 530 Peisistratus of Athens creates a library.
About 520 Alcmaeon of Croton finds out about the human body by cutting up dead ones groovy, eh?
Persians invade Greece beaten by Greeks at The Battle of Marathon.
The first comedy drama at Athens.
Xerxes of Persia attacks the Greeks. The battle of Thermopylae. Spartan heroes die.
Athens v Sparta and Persia.
431 404 Athens tries to get too bossy so the others fight the Peloponnesian War. Sparta becomes top dog.
Great Plague of Athens kills Athenian leader, Pericles, not to mention a quarter of all the Athenian people.
A defeat at Syracuse for the army of Athens followed by
The Fall of Athens.
About 400 Greek army engineers invent the stomach bow the first type of crossbow.
Spartans lose to new top dog, the Thebans.
Alexander the Great becomes king of Macedon when his dad is assassinated. In just ten years he conquers the old enemy, Persia.
Aristotle invents the camera obscura a sort of pinhole camera and the idea behind todays film and television now that really was groovy!
Alexander the Great dies. His generals divide up his empire.
The end of democracy in Athens when the Macedons take over.
Archimedes invents war machines like the catapult they keep the Romans out for three years.
Archimedes has mirrors set along the harbour walls they dazzle the Romans and set fire to their boats Romans delayed for a while but
Here come the Romans.
Greece part of the Roman Empire.
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