Ancient Greece By DoesMagus 1600 BCE Minoan civilization reaches its height of success 1400 BCE Mycenaean's settle and take control of the Aegean sea 1250 BCE Trojan war 750 BCE Greeks polis' take shape 750 BCE Homer writes the epic poems of the Lilac and the Odyssey 480 BCE Xerxes, King of Persia, sends troops to conquer Greeks 460 BCE Age of Pericles marks the height of democracy in Athens 431 BCE Peloponnesian War breaks out 338 BCE Kink Philip II gains the throne as King of Macedonia 332 BCE Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire