Early Greek History

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  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Bronze Age

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1250 BCE

    Minoan Civilization

    2000 - 1700 BCE: 1st Palace Period
    1700 - 1400 BCE: 2nd Palace Period
    1400 - 1200 BCE: 3rd Palace Period ruled by Mycenaeans
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Mycenaean Civilization

    1. Wrote in Linear B
    2. Built three part palaces
    3. End of civilization unclear
  • Trojan War begins
    1250 BCE

    Trojan War begins

    1. Controversial event about a war fought over Helen of Troy
    2. Written about by Homer in 700 BCE
    3. Lasted 10 years
    4. War won by use of "Trojan Horse"
  • Lion's Gate built in Mycenae
    1200 BCE

    Lion's Gate built in Mycenae

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 800 BCE

    Dark Ages

    1. Loss of writing
    2. loss of representational art
    3. No large buildings built
    4. Rise of piracy
    5. Invention of phalanx
    6. Spread of iron usage
  • First Greek Olympics
    776 BCE

    First Greek Olympics

    1. Held in Olympia
    2. Repeats every four years until ended by Theodosius in 394 CE
    3. Honor's Zeus
    4. Started with just foot races and wrestling with more events such as chariot racing and boxing added over the years.
  • Period: 750 BCE to 600 BCE

    Colonization Movement

    1. Fueled by large populations and a need for raw materials
    2. Oracle of Delphi consulted to find good colony locations
  • First Greek Inscription
    740 BCE

    First Greek Inscription

  • Homer writes famous epic poems
    700 BCE

    Homer writes famous epic poems

    1. Iliad and Odyssey about Trojan War
    2. Controversy exist on whether Homer (author) was one person or more than one.
  • 621 BCE

    First Written Law Code of Athens

    1. Created by Draco
    2. Harsh punishments for lawbreakers
  • Solon's Reforms in Athens
    594 BCE

    Solon's Reforms in Athens

    1. Reforms Constitution
    2. Revises Draco's laws
    3. Cancels debt, frees people enslaved by debt
  • Rule of Pisistratus
    546 BCE

    Rule of Pisistratus

    1. Tried to take power by claiming he was being brought to power by Athena Ruled as a tyrant for 19 years.
    2. Succeed by his two sons, Hippias and Hipparchus.
  • Cleisthenes
    508 BCE

    Cleisthenes

    1. Continued reforms of Solon
    2. Founder of democracy
    3. Reordered Athens into demes, trittys, and ten new tribes
    4. Created Council of 500
    5. Potentially created the idea of ostracism ( started in 488 BCE)
  • Schliemann excavated Troy

    Schliemann excavated Troy

    1. Digs at a site called Hisserlik
    2. Uncovers a site of nine cities built on top of each other
    3. Dug too deep, uncovering treasure from before the time of the Trojan War
    4. Excavations continued by Dorpfeld (his architect), then the University of Cincinnati, and finally boy Manfred Korfmann in the 1980s who finds an entire lower city.
  • Schliemann digs at Mycenae

    Schliemann digs at Mycenae

    1. Unearthed shaft graves
    2. Discovers gold mask (he thought was Agamemnon)
  • Evans excavates Knossos

    Evans excavates Knossos

    1. Partially reconstructs it, but makes some mistakes such as this dolphin mosaic
  • Linear B deciphered by Michael Ventris

    Linear B deciphered by Michael Ventris