Ancient Greece Timeline By rmurillo 5000 BCE _The island of Crete is settled_ Period: 5000 BCE to Jan 1, 2000 Ancient Greece 2500 BCE _Minoan civilization developed on the island of Crete_ 2300 BCE _Minoan language Linear A is developed_ 1600 BCE #Athens and Mycenae are established by the Mycenaeans# 1100 BCE *The city-state of Sparta begins to form* 776 BCE *The 1st Olympic Games are held in Olympia* 594 BCE *Democracy begins in Athens* 547 BCE *The Persians conquer Lydia and the Ionians in Asia Minor* 500 BCE *The Golden Age of Greece begins; advances in many fields of study 490 BCE *The battle of Marathon: The Greeks defeat the Persians* 480 BCE *The Battle of Thermopylae: the Persians defeat the badly* 431 BCE *The Peloponnese between Athens and sparta* 384 BCE *Aristotle is born* 331 BCE *Alexander conquers Egypt, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Persia 324 BCE *Alexander's army stop at the Indus River* 211 BCE *Greek settlements in Syracuse are conquered by the Romans 27 BCE *Greece officially becomes part of the Roman empire 428 *Plato is born* 1896 *The Olympic games begin again in Athens*
