Early Greek City States and Persian Wars - T. Roark

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  • Period: 2700 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Minoan Greece

    Earliest Greek Civilization
  • 1900 BCE

    Mycenaeans invaded Greek mainland

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Mycenaean Greece

    Bronze age of civilization
  • 1450 BCE

    End of the Minoans

    unexplained collapse
  • 1400 BCE

    Mycenaeans replaced the Minoans

    as the major power of the Mediterranean
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE

    Greek Dark Ages

  • Period: 800 BCE to 500 BCE

    Archaic Greece

  • Period: 750 BCE to 500 BCE

    Greeks Traveled to coasts

    of Italy, France, Spain, North Africa, and Western Asia
  • 660 BCE

    Zoroaster was born

    Founder of Zoroastrianism
  • 650 BCE

    Farmers wanted change

    in the power structure
  • 600 BCE

    Athenians rebelled against nobles

  • Period: 600 BCE to Dec 31, 699

    Tyrants overthrew Nobles

  • 594 BCE

    Solon cancelled debts and freed slaves

  • 560 BCE

    Tyrant Peisistratus seized power

  • Period: 559 BCE to 530 BCE

    Cyrus the Great ruled

    "Conquerer of Babylon"
  • 539 BCE

    Cyrus's armies captured Babylon

  • 521 BCE

    Darius reorganized gvt.

  • 508 BCE

    Cleisthenes came to power

  • 500 BCE

    Tyrants fell out of favor in Greece

  • 500 BCE

    Persia controlled Greek cities in Asia Minor

    (mid 500s)
  • Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE

    Classical Greece

  • 499 BCE

    Athenians helped Greeks rebel

    Greeks in Asia Minor rebelled against Persians
  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

  • 486 BCE

    Xerxes became Persian King

  • 480 BCE

    Xerxes launched new invasion of Greece

  • 479 BCE

    Plataea

    Greek city-states came together to form the largest Greek army ever assembled
  • 334 BCE

    Alexander the Great invades Persian Empire

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