Ancient Greece By Grace.H Period: 2700 BCE to 1500 BCE Minoan Greece 2000 BCE Minoan ships controlled the Eastern Mediterranean sea 1900 BCE Mycenaeans invaded Greek Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE The bronze age in Mycenaean Greece 1450 BCE Minoan suddenly collapsed 1400 BCE Mycenaeans replaces Minos as the major power of the Mediterranean Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE Greek Dark Ages Period: 800 BCE to 500 BCE Archaic Greece 660 BCE Founder-Zoroaster was born 650 BCE Small Farmers began to demand changes to power structure 600 BCE Athenians began to rebel against the nobles 600 BCE Tyrants overthrew the Nobles 594 BCE A noble named Solon cancelled all farmers’ debts and freed those who had become slaves 560 BCE Finally a tyrant (Peisistratus) seized power Period: 559 BCE to 530 BCE Cyrus the Great united the Persians into a powerful kingdom 550 BCE Persia controlled the Greek cities in Asia Minor 539 BCE Cyrus’s armies swept into Mesopotamia and captured Babylon 521 BCE Darius reorganized the government to make it work better by dividing the empire into 20 provinces called satrapies 508 BCE Cleisthenes came to power 500 BCE Most city-states were becoming either oligarchies or democracies Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE Classical Greece 499 BCE Athenian army helped the Greeks in Asia Minor rebel against the Persians 490 BCE Persian fleet landed 20,000 soldiers on the plain of Marathon 486 BCE Xerxes became the Persian king 480 BCE launched a new invasion of Greece 479 BCE the Greek city-states came together to form the largest Greek army ever assembled 334 BCE Persians were no match for the Greek troops by the time Alexander the Great invaded the empire Period: 750 to 500 Greeks Traveled to the coast of France, Italy Spain, North Africa, and Western Asia 1900 Sir Arthur Evans discovered evidence of Minoan
