Written here is a simple Time Line for Ancient Greece. I've only included key points, and glossed over more than a few wars. The while HH is interested in Ancient Greece life, we are more interested in life as it revolved around religion.
Adapted from The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece.
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Early History
40,000 BCE - The first people settle in Greece, hunting and gathering food.
c.6500-3000 BCE - First inhabitants settle on Crete. Pottery is made in Greece
and Crete.
c.5200-2000 BCE - Farming spreads in northern and western Europe.
c.4000 BCE - Evidence of early inhabitants in the Cyclades islands including
remains of metalwork.
The Bronze Age: c.2900-1000 BCE
c.2900 BCE - Population of Greece increases, towns develop and metal is widely
used.
- - c.2686-2181 BCE - Old Kingdom in Egypt. The pyramids are built.
c.2500 BCE - Troy is founded.
- - c.2000 BCE - The building of the Stonehenge begins in England.
c.2000 BCE - Possible arrival of the first Greek-speaking people in Greece.
c.1900 BCE - Rise of Minoan culture on Crete.
c.1700 BCE - Cretan palaces are destroyed by earthquakes, then rebuilt.
c.1600 BCE - Rise of Mycenaean culture in Greece.
c.1500-1450 BCE - Traditional date given for the eruption of Thera.
c.1450 BCE - Cretan palaces are destroyed. Knossos is taken over by
Mycenaeans and rebuilt. Mycenaean power increases.
c.1400 BCE - Knossos is abandoned.
c.1250 BCE - Main fortifications built at Mycenae and other sites. Traditional
date of the start of the Trojan War.
c.1200 BCE - Mycenaean power declines. Migration of Sea Peoples.
The Dark Ages: c.1100-800 BCE
By 1100 BCE - Mycenaean way of life has collapsed.
- - c.1100 BCE - Phoenicians spread throughout the Mediterranean and develop
alphabetic writing.
c.900 BCE - State of Sparta is founded.
Between 850-750 BCE - Homer, the epic poet, probably lived at this time.
The Archaic Period: c.800-500 BCE
c.800 BCE - Greeks resume trading contacts with other peoples. They adapt
Phoenician writing to create an alphabet for their own language.
776 BCE - Traditional date of the first Olympic Games, held at Olympia.
- - 753 BCE - Date Traditionally given for the founding of the city of Rome.
c.750-650 BCE - People start to emigrate from Greece, founding colonies around
the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
- Hesiod, the poet, said to have lived during this time.
c.740-720 BCE - Spartans begin expanding their territory, and conquer the
nearby state of Messenia.
c.650 BCE - Tyrants seize power in Greece.
c.546 BCE - The Persians conquer Greek colonies in Ionia (Turkey).
508 BCE - Cleisthenes seizes power in Athens and introduces reforms which lead
to democracy.
500-479 BCE - Numerous battles between the Greeks and Persians take place.
The Classical Age: c.500-323 BCE
478-362 BCE - Much of the key events during this period involve countless wars
between Athens, the Delian League, Sparta, and the Persians.
359 BCE - Phillip II becomes King of Macedonia.
340 BCE - The Greek states form the Hellenic League against threat to Greece
pose by Phillip of Macedonia.
338 BCE - Phillip II defeats the Hellenic League and becomes ruler of Greece.
This marks the end of the independence of the Greek city-states.
337 BCE - Greek states join the Corinthian League, led by Phillip II. The league
declares war on Persia.
336 BCE - Phillip II dies, probably murdered, and is succeeded by his son,
Alexander the Great.
333-327 BCE - Alexander the Great defeats and conquers the Persians,
Phoenicia, Samaria, Judea, Gaza, Egypt, etc.
323 BCE - Alexander the Great dies.
Hellenistic Age: c.323-30 BCE
Hellenic Age was marked with many wars between Greece, Persia, Rome, etc.
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