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Last tour day! Part 18

  Let's start roughly 4600 years ago. That's when we start seeing Greek history. Or the early version, like the Mycenaeans and the Minoans. 2000 BC is roughly the start of what we think of as ancient Greece. Around 800 BC, we start to see the rise of city-states. The two biggies, of course, are Sparta and Athens. 499 marks the start of the Greco-Persian Wars. The whole movie 300 times. They last roughly 20 years, and in 479 the Greeks finally crushed Persia, and we hit the golden age of ancient Greece. Here, you get what most people are thinking of: Pericles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Parthenon is built. Good times, right? 48 years is all they actually are. 431, they go to war again, the Peloponnesian Wars. Athens vs. Sparta, the big showdown, and yes, Sparta wins by 404; nearly 30 more years they were at war. Greece just loves to fight, but then Greece is in decline, still a power after this, but not a giant. In 336 BC, they took one more big swing. Alex the Great be...