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Ancient Greece

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  • Period: 3700 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Minoan

    -despite length of era, thrived during Neopalatial Period (1,700BC - 1,400BC)
    -characterized large scale buildings of commercial "palaces"
    -language 'Linear A' (yet to be deciphered)
    -culture of trade & production, excellent seafarers (Mediterranean Sea)
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Cycladic

    • left traces of culture found through excavations of grave sites
    • produced unique, geometric marble figures
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Mycenaean (exact timespan unspecified)

    -mainland culture that conquered the Aegean Islands and Crete
    -fractioned and warlike, centered around one ruler
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 900 BCE

    Greek Dark Age

  • Period: 900 BCE to 480 BCE

    Archaic Greece

    • new inhabitants
    • change in language, adaption of Phoenician alphabet, new funerary practices and differentiating materials from previous culture
  • Period: 900 BCE to 480 BCE

    Geometric Period (exact timespan unspecified)

    • centered on people and independent cities divining land into regions
  • Period: 900 BCE to 480 BCE

    Orientalizing Period (exact timespan unspecified)

    • contact with the Near East, renewing trade
  • Period: 600 BCE to 480 BCE

    Colonization

    • Greek population colonized along Mediterranean and Black Seas
    • cities ruled by a single commander
    • led to creation of democracy in Athens
    • Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes gained power and were often at war with one another forming coalitions
  • Period: 480 BCE to 323 BCE

    Classical Greece

    • era began with the sacking of Athens, uniting Greece against the Persian threat
    • Athens defeated Persians and gained power until the Peloponnesian War (431BC - 400BC)
    • height of Greek culture; most famous era for art and architecture
  • Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE

    Hellenistic Greece

    • began with death of Alexander the Great and ended with the Battle of Actium
    • Greek cities under foreign rule (ie. Macedonia and Rome)