Ancient Greece

By Eil
  • Period: 2700 BCE to 1500 BCE

    "Minoan" Greece

  • 2000 BCE

    Minoan ships controlled the eastern Mediterranean Sea

    Minoan ships controlled the eastern Mediterranean Sea
  • 1900 BCE

    Mycenaeans invaded Greek

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Bronze Age civilization based in mainland Greece

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Mycenaean Greece

  • 1450 BCE

    Civilization suddenly collapsed

  • 1400 BCE

    Mycenaeans replaced the Minoans as the major power on the Mediterranean.

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE

    Greek dark ages (Earthquakes and fighting among the kingdoms)

  • Period: 800 BCE to 300 BCE

    Archaic Greece

  • Period: 750 BCE to 500 BCE

    Rise out of the Dark Ages (Greeks traveled to lots of country)

  • 650 BCE

    Small farmers began to demand changes to the power structure

  • 600 BCE

    Tyrants managed to overthrow the nobles

  • 600 BCE

    The Athenians began to rebel against the nobles.

  • 594 BCE

    noble named Solon cancelled all farmers’ debts and freed those who had become slaves

  • 590 BCE

    Battle

  • 560 BCE

    Finally a tyrant (Peisistratus) seized power

  • 508 BCE

    Became Democracy

  • 500 BCE

    tyrants had fallen out of favor in Greece

  • Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE

    Classical Greece