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Ancient Greece

By jmaddox
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Mycenean

  • The Trojan war
    1100 BCE

    The Trojan war

    The Trojan war is berried within myth and legend but within the story of the Iliad and odyssey you can pick out the base of Greece over powering the city of Troy
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 702 BCE

    Greek dark ages

  • The First Olympic Games
    776 BCE

    The First Olympic Games

    The modern day Olympic actually started as a sports event in honor of Zeus, it too took place every 4 years and took place in Olympia
  • The First Greek Coins
    600 BCE

    The First Greek Coins

    these coins where the made currency and offering to the gods, often made of silver but sometime gold
  • Birth of Pythagoras
    570 BCE

    Birth of Pythagoras

    The father of the "Pythagorean Theorem" that we still use today, he was a brilliant scientist and mathematician.
  • Greeks vs Persians
    480 BCE

    Greeks vs Persians

    Greeks battled fiercely with the Persians in the infamous battle of Thermopylae
  • Period: 480 BCE to 323 BCE

    Greek Classic Period

  • Start of the Peloponnesian War
    431 BCE

    Start of the Peloponnesian War

    A war between Athens and Sparta, the classic brain vs brawn.
  • The birth of Alexander the Great
    355 BCE

    The birth of Alexander the Great

    The man who took the East Mediterranean for the Greeks and expanded the empire
  • Alexander Dies
    323 BCE

    Alexander Dies

    His death signals the downfall of Greece as they knew it and the start of the Hellenistic period
  • Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE

    Hellenistic

  • Rome Takes Greece
    146 BCE

    Rome Takes Greece

    Rome consumes Greece into the roman empire, but the culture and rule was still held in Egypt
  • Rome Takes Egypt
    31 BCE

    Rome Takes Egypt

    Officially Ending the Hellenistic Era and the death the ancient Greece