| A | B |
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| Battle of Salamis (Cyprus) | 306 BC - First appearance of the helepolis of Demetrius Poliorcetes |
| Siege of Rhodes | 305 BC - The Helepolis failed to take this island city |
| Siege of Tyre | 332 BC - It took Alexander 7 months to capture this island city |
| Siege of Motya | 399 BC - Dionysius I used new siege weapons to take this Sicilian island city |
| Siege of Syracuse | 415 BC - Disastrous Sicilian expedition ended in defeat for Athens |
| Siege of Plataea | 429 BC - it took 2 years for Sparta to starve out this Athenian ally |
| Battle of Gaugamela | 331 BC - Final defeat by Alexander of Darius and his Persian army |
| Battle of Issus | 333 BC - Second battle of Alexander and Darius - Alexander captures Darius' family |
| Battle of Granicus | 334 BC - Alexander's first clash with a Persian army |
| Battle of Leuctra | 371 BC - Thebes' decisive victory was the beginning of the end for Sparta |
| Battle of Lechaeum | 390 BC - Proved that peltasts could take on the Spartan hoplites - and win! |
| Battle of Salamis (Greece) | 380 BC - Athenian navy's defeat of the Persians, thanks to Themistocles |
| Battle of Plataea | 479 BC - Final defeat of the Persian army on Greek soil |
| Battle of Thermopylae | 380 BC - the final stand of the 300 Spartans |
| Battle of Marathon | 490 BC - Athens' first great victory over the Persians |
| The Trojan War | 1200 BC - Foundational war story for both Greece and Rome |
| The Persian War | 490-480 BC - Invasion of Greece prompted by the Ionian Rebellion |
| Ionian Rebellion | 499 BC - Greek cities of Asia Minor revolt against Persia |
| The Peloponnesian War | 431-404 BC - Sparta pins Athens within its walls - including the Long Walls |
