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There were a number of events in the year 490 BC. The major event was the Battle of Marathon where the Greeks led by Athens defeated the Persians. This battle saved Greece from invasion.
In Ancient Greece in 650 BC Perdiccas Temenid found the Macedonian Kingdom!
Darius the Great's commander Datis came to grief at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC (First Persian invasion of Greece) .
To fight off the invading Persians. This happened twice once under Darius I 492-490 BC again under Xerxes in 480 479BC,
Bronze Age Greece: 2800 - 1100 BC Includes: Minoan Civilization on Crete (2800-1450 BC) Mycenaean Civilization on mainland Greece (1600-1100 BC) Dark Ages: 1200-800 BC Ancient Greece: 800 BC - 146 BC Includes: Archaic Greece (800-510/480 BC) Classical Greece (510-323 BC) Hellenistic Greece (323-146 BC) Followed by Roman conquest, and later under the thumb of the Byzantine Empire.