Ancient Greece Timeline

By courtneys17
  • 2600 BCE

    Minoans

    Aegean Bronze age civilization on the island of crete and other Aegean island, There symbol is a minotaur(half bull, half human)
  • 1650 BCE

    Mycenaeans

    Are the first greeks on land,They where the first people to speak greek. They where influenced by the minoans and located on the island of crete
  • 1100 BCE

    Dark Ages

    THe dark ages is just when we have no written copies of documents, last for about 400 years
  • 750 BCE

    TroganWar

    IN mythology the war was waged between the city of troy and the greeks, Greeks won by hiding in the trogan horse they made for troy
  • 570 BCE

    Pythagoras

    Pythagorean theorem, taught secrets of the universe could be found in numbers
  • 500 BCE

    Persian war

    King wanted to conguer greece and get more land, Fought by the citizens of athens
  • 490 BCE

    Marathon Battle

    During the first invasion in Persia, Athens fought in one unit to drive the Persians back to the ocean.
  • 470 BCE

    Socrates

    Was a soldier, Left no writings, Goal of education, Power of debate,question and answer method
  • 428 BCE

    Plato

    Student of socrates,Considered to be one of the best out of the three,Trained mind,
  • 404 BCE

    Peloponesian war

    Athens and sparta, Sparta wins becuase of there strong army
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Platos most famous students,studied at platos school,happiness comes from virtue,made and recorded observation
  • 359 BCE

    Phillip ||

    King of spai, 17 provinces, nether lands
  • 356 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    Macedon,persia,chieftans
  • 323 BCE

    Hellenistic Era

    Brilliant age, Modern science, Drama devolopments