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Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE
Minoans inhabit Crete in Bronze Age
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Period: 2000 BCE to 1700 BCE
FIrst Minoan Palatial Age
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1700 BCE
Earthquake on Crete
Destroyed all the Minoan palaces -
Period: 1700 BCE to 1400 BCE
2nd Minoan Palatial Period
Height of this civilization -
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. -
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 -
776 BCE
First Olympic Games
Held in Olympia and continued into Roman times -
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. -
621 BCE
Draco - harsh legal overhaul
Death as a penalty for almost everything -
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 -
510 BCE
Athens Freed from Tyrants
A series of tyrants who had taken power in Athens were finally defeated. -
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
