Ancient Greece Timeline By Qhoward Period: 2700 BCE to 1500 BCE Early Greek CIty States 2000 BCE Minoan ships controlled the eastern Mediterranean 1900 BCE Mycenaeans invaded Greek mainland Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE Mycenaean Greece 1450 BCE Civilization Suddenly collapsed 1400 BCE Mycenaeans replaced the Minoans with a major power Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE Greek Dark Ages Period: 800 BCE to 500 BCE Archaic Greece Period: 750 BCE to 500 BCE Rise out of the Dark Ages 660 BCE Religion 650 BCE The Rise of leaders 600 BCE Greek Tyrants 600 BCE Government 594 BCE Government 560 BCE Government Period: 559 BCE to 530 BCE Cyrus the Great 539 BCE Cyrus the Great 521 BCE Persian Government 508 BCE Cleisthenes-Democracy 500 BCE Oligarchy 500 BCE Persian Wars Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE Classical Greece 499 BCE Persian Wars 490 BCE Battle of Marathon 486 BCE New Attack 480 BCE New Attack 479 BCE Plataea
