Greece

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  • 3000 BCE

    First towns in the Aegean Sea region

    Neolithic Age - Wealth from olive and vine culture encourages the growth of the first towns in the Aegean Sea region.
  • 2700 BCE

    Early Minoan civilization develops on Crete

    Bronze Age
  • 1600 BCE

    Mycenaean civilization emerges on Greek mainland

    Bronze Age
  • 1250 BCE

    Mycenaean civilization collapes

    Bronze Age
  • 1050 BCE

    Dorian invaders move into Greece

    Dark Ages - Dorians come from Anatolia bringing secrets of ironworking
  • 900 BCE

    Sparta is founded - Citizens known for military discipline

    Dark Ages of Greece
  • 776 BCE

    1st Olympic Games are held

  • 750 BCE

    Great epics of Homer are composed

    Archaic Greece - Homer's epics are not written down
  • 750 BCE

    Evidence of a Greek alphabet

  • 683 BCE

    Athens- hereditary kingship comes to end, replaced with elected officials

  • 600 BCE

    Coins come into use on mainland Greece

  • 539 BCE

    First known Greek tragedy performed at Athens

  • 499 BCE

    Greek cities of Ionia rebel against Persia

  • 490 BCE

    Darius I of Persia attacks mainland Greece - He's defeated at Battle of Marathon

  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Thermopylae - Spartans fight to last man against forces of Xerxes of Persia

  • 460 BCE

    Hippocrates, known for study of medicine, is born

    Classical Greece
  • 448 BCE

    Pericles starts construction of Parthenon, a temple to Athena

    Classical Greece
  • 399 BCE

    Socrates sentenced to death - drinks hemlock

  • 385 BCE

    Plato founds the Academy in Athens

  • 359 BCE

    Philip II becomes King in Macedon, turns small kingdom into major power

  • 343 BCE

    Philip II hires Aristotle to tutor his son, Alexander

  • 336 BCE

    After murder of Philip, Alexander become king and adopts plan to invade Persia

  • 334 BCE

    Alexander invades Anatolia and beats a Persian army

  • 332 BCE

    Alexander takes control of Egypt, and founds city of Alexandria

  • 331 BCE

    Alexander defeats a Persian army winning control of Mesopotamia

  • 330 BCE

    Alexander burns down Persian royal Palace. Darius III murdered by governor. Alexander in control of all Perian lands

  • 329 BCE

    Alexander conquers Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, and invades the Indus Valley

  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great dies suddenly in Babylon. General divide empire

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