Ceresgoddess

greek history

By pappy
  • 2000 BCE

    First Settlers

    Wandering tribes begin to settle in Greece and one of the most famous classical civilizations begin.
  • 1600 BCE

    Mycenaean Greece

    the bronze age was inhabited by the Mycenaean people they took their name from the Mycenae capital.
  • 1194 BCE

    Trojan war pt.1

    This is when the war between Greece and Trojan occurred but with a sneak attack.
  • 1184 BCE

    Trojan war pt. 2

    the Trojan war ended when the Greeks send in a wooden big horse into troy as a suppose surprise but not a good surprise for the Trojans.
  • 1100 BCE

    Dorian invaders

    Dorian tribesman invaded Mycenaean Greece from the north but the Dorian had iron weapons that were in good defeat to conquer the Mycenaean's.
  • 850 BCE

    alphabet

    Then later the Greek alphabet was developed and used by the Phoenician alphabet.
  • 800 BCE

    homer

    the man who created the story's the odyssey and Iliad, while the Iliad was a poem about the Trojan war and the Odyssey was a story about adventure.
  • 776 BCE

    first Olympic games

    the first of the Olympic games and was held in Olympia there was one event and it was the 200m men sprint which was like track.
  • 743 BCE

    first Messenian war

    in this time the Spartans and the messenians both disagreed to something which resolved into a fight or war.
  • 724 BCE

    first Messenian war pt. 2

    And so the war went and was won by the Spartans
  • 621 BCE

    Dracos code of law

    the laws of Athens was a set of oral laws but Draco introduced a new set of laws and they were much worse and most of the punishment was death.
  • 600 BCE

    money

    the first Greek coins appeared.
  • 508 BCE

    democracy

    democracy began in Athens
  • 495 BCE

    Pythagoras

    a philosopher and a mathematician Pythagoras died in Mentholatum.
  • 490 BCE

    first Persian war

    the first Persian war was a retaliation into Athens because they wanted participation in a Greek raid on Persia.
  • 490 BCE

    battle of marathon

    the Greeks defeated the Persians in a battle of marathons.
  • 480 BCE

    second Persian war

    the second war accord when the Persian king himself king Xerxes led an invasion force into Greece.
  • 480 BCE

    battle of Thermopylae

    Persians defeated Greeks in the battle of Thermopylae.
  • 480 BCE

    battle of salamis

    the Greeks victoriously defeated the Persians in the battle of salamis.
  • 432 BCE

    Parthenon completed

    there was a statue of Athena built in a temple of Athens so that the goddess Athena could watch over them.
  • 431 BCE

    Peloponnesesian wars

    A war between Athens and Sparta.
  • 403 BCE

    democracy

    democracy was restored to Athens.
  • 399 BCE

    Socrates

    a philosopher named Socrates was found guilty for disrespecting the Greek gods and was executed.
  • 380 BCE

    academy

    another philosopher named Plato made an academy in Athens .
  • 359 BCE

    philip the second

    Philip became king of Macedon.
  • 339 BCE

    catapult

    the catapult was invented by Syracuse.