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This is when people first started to live and adapt to Greece.
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They were a civilization that flourished during the Bronze Age. They had influenced the Peloponnese and Aegean. However they were mainly influenced by the earlier people, the Minoans.
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This is when the Trojan war began and was said to last for 10 years. It began because Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband, Menelaus.
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This was around the time that the Mycaneaen people were invaded by the Dorians. This caused a major shift in cultural development and language.
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The Phoenician alphabet was created during this time. Most historians said it was likely made in Euboea.
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This was the around the time that Homer composed his two most famous poems- the Iliad the Odyssey.
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This was the first recorded Olympic games and it was held in Olympia.
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It was a disagreement between Messenians and Spartans and lasted until about 724 BCE.
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The aristocratic leaders were challenges by the lesser aristocrats who wanted to overthrow the monopoly. In the end they did seize power over the higher aristocrats.
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The laws that had previously been set to Athens were then changed by Draco; who introduced a new set of written laws that were cruel and had death as a punishment.
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This is when the first Greek coins appeared.
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This is when democracy was first introduced to Athens.
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This war was started when Persia sent an invasion force into Athens as revenge for the Greek raid in Persia.
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This is where the Greeks first defeated the Persians.
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This is when the Persians defeated the Greeks.
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This is when the Greeks finally completed the Parthenon; the temple that was built in Athens to house a statue of the Goddess Athena.
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This is when the wars between Athens and Sparta started. It lasted until about 404 BCE, when the Spartans won and removed democracy from Athens.
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Greek philosopher was charged with impiety; being disrespectful to the Gods. He was found guilty and then executed.
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This is when Plato, student of Socrates, founded the academy in the Athens.
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This is when the philosopher and author of the Republic died in Athens.
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This is when the catapult was invented at Syracruse.
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This is when Philip II, King of Macedon, conquered Greece.
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This was a federation of the Greek states that was also founded by Philip II and it was made to help against Persia.
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This is when Philip II was assassinated and his son, Alexander became the King of Macedon.
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This was founded by Alexander the Great in Athens.
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This was when Alexander the Great conquered Persia and claimed himself to be King of Persia.
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Another conquered land of Alexander the Great. He then made Alexandria the capital of his newly acquired land.
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This is when Alexander the Great died and his son had not yet been born so his conquered lands were divided among his top generals.
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The philosopher, mathematician, student of Plato, tutor of Alexander died in Euboea.
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The Romans defeated the Greeks at the Battle of Corinth and Greece then became part of the Roman Empire.
