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Ancient Greece

By jselwood
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Minoans inhabit Crete in Bronze Age

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1700 BCE

    FIrst Minoan Palatial Age

  • Earthquake on Crete
    1700 BCE

    Earthquake on Crete

    Destroyed all the Minoan palaces
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1400 BCE

    2nd Minoan Palatial Period

    Height of this civilization
  • Enormous Volcanic Eruption on Santorini
    1648 BCE

    Enormous Volcanic Eruption on Santorini

    Destroyed entire area and could be heard thousands of miles away
  • Period: 1400 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Mycenaean Palatial Period

    Culture changes with the invasion of the Myceaneans from the mainland.
  • Trojan War
    1250 BCE

    Trojan War

    Epic story passed down orally through generations until Homer wrote about it 500 years later.
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE

    Dark Ages

    Writing and representational art disappear
  • First Olympic Games
    776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

    Held in Olympia and continued into Roman times
  • Homer writes Odyssey and Iliad
    750 BCE

    Homer writes Odyssey and Iliad

    Greek poet, Homer, writes about the Trojan War, 500 years after it occurs in his epic works.
  • Period: 750 BCE to 600 BCE

    Greek Renaissance

    Colonize to export population and trading potential
  • Period: 735 BCE to 715 BCE

    Messenian War

    Sparta's militaristic society invaded Messenia and made them slaves. Sparta had two kings and a constitution so it could have been a constitutional monarchy.
  • Period: 650 BCE to 620 BCE

    2nd Messenian War

    Sparta won again.
  • Draco - harsh legal overhaul
    621 BCE

    Draco - harsh legal overhaul

    Death as a penalty for almost everything
  • Solon's Athenian Reforms
    594 BCE

    Solon's Athenian Reforms

    Cancelled all debts; Athenian coinsl; granted citizenship to immigrant craftsmen; groups were divided by how much grain that they could raise, not by birth family
  • Athens Freed from Tyrants
    510 BCE

    Athens Freed from Tyrants

    A series of tyrants who had taken power in Athens were finally defeated.
  • Birth of true Democracy – Cleisthenes' reforms
    508 BCE

    Birth of true Democracy – Cleisthenes' reforms

    Equality under the law and equality to speak in the assembly
    One man, one vote principle
    All free men can be on juries and hold office
    Basis of US constitution