Ancient Greece By patrick.harrison@weldre9.org Period: 2600 BCE to 1100 BCE Bronze age greece, mycenaens and Minoans flourished. 776 BCE first Olympic games 570 BCE pythagores is born and later develops geometry 490 BCE democracy begins in Athens, Greek and persian wars, Period: 490 BCE to 480 BCE Greek and persian wars 432 BCE parthenon is completed in Athens Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE the peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta 336 BCE Alexander the great becomes king of Macedonia 323 BCE Alexander the great dies in Babylon