The Entire Story of Ancient Greece in 15 Minutes | From Bronze Age Kings to Alexander

How did a few hundred quarrelling towns on a rocky coast change the way the world thinks about government, science and art? This is the whole story of ancient Greece in about 15 minutes: the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans, the legend of Troy (told as legend), the Dark Age and Homer, the first Olympic Games, the city-states, Sparta and Athens, Solon and Cleisthenes and the birth of democracy, the Persian Wars (Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis), the Golden Age of Pericles, the Parthenon, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the Peloponnesian War, Philip II and Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic world, the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC, and the legacy Greece left behind.