ancient Greece By Ari Schmidt Period: 2700 BCE to 1500 BCE the earliest Greek civilization Period: 2700 BCE to 1500 BCE Minoan Greece 2000 BCE by this time Minoan ships controlled the eastern Mediterranean sea 1900 BCE Mycenaeans invaded mainland Greece Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE mainland Greece goes into a bronze age Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE Mycenaean Greece 1450 BCE the Minoans civilization suddenly collapsed don don don !!!!!! 1400 BCE Mycenaean's replaced the Minoans as the major power of the Mediterranean Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE Greek dark ages Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE Greek dark ages Period: 800 BCE to 500 BCE Archaic Greece Period: 750 BCE to 500 BCE Greeks traveled to the coasts of Italy, Spain, France, north Africa and western Asia 650 BCE small farmers demand changes 600 BCE tyrants over there the nobles 600 BCE Athenians began to rebel against the nobles 594 BCE Solon, a noble, cancelled all farmers debits 560 BCE Peisistratus seized power Period: 559 BCE to 530 BCE when Cyrus ruled Babylon 539 BCE Cyrus armies captured Babylon 521 BCE Darius reorganized the government 508 BCE Democracy came to power 500 BCE tyrants fell out of favor for Greece 500 BCE Persia controlled Greek cites Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE Classical Greece 499 BCE Athens helped Greek rebel against Persia 490 BCE Persian fleet landed at Marathon 486 BCE Xerxes became the Persian king 480 BCE lunched an invasion on Greece 479 BCE Greek cite-states came together to for the largest Greek army 1900 sir Arthur Evans archaeological discovered evidence of Minoan civilization
