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Greek History

By kwilson15
  • Period: 2000 BCE to

    First Settlers

    Wandering tribes begin to settle in Greece.
  • Period: 1600 BCE to

    Mycenaean Greece

    Bronze Age Greece was inhabited by the Mycenaean people.
  • Period: 1194 BCE to 1194

    Trojan War

    The Trojan war between the Greeks and the Trojans (inhabitants of Troy) began
  • Period: 1184 BCE to 1184

    Trojan War

    The Trojan war ended when the Greeks used a wooden horse to invade
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 1100

    Dorian Invaders

    Mycenaean Greece was invaded by Dorian tribesmen from the north.
  • Period: 800 BCE to 800

    Homer

    Homer composed his poems – the Iliad and the Odyssey
  • Period: 743 BCE to 743

    First Messenian War

    This was a disagreement between the Messenians and the Spartans that led to war
  • Period: 724 BCE to 724

    First Messenian War

    The first Messenian war ended in victory for the Spartans
  • Period: 621 BCE to 621 BCE

    Draco’s Code of Law

    The laws of Athens had previously been a set of oral laws.
  • Period: 600 BCE to 600

    money

    The first Greek coins appeared.
  • Period: 580 BCE to 580

    Democracy

    Democracy began in Athens.
  • Period: 495 BCE to 495

    Pythagoras

    The philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras, died in metapontum.
  • Period: 490 BCE to 490

    First Persian War

    The First Persian war began when Persia sent an invasion force into Athens in retaliation
  • Period: 490 BCE to 490

    Battle of Marathon

    The Greeks defeated the Persians in the Battle of Marathon
  • Period: 480 BCE to 480

    Second Persian War

    The Second Persian war began when Persia’s King Xerxes led an invasion force into Greece.
  • Period: 480 BCE to 480

    Battle of Thermopylae

    The Persians defeated the Greeks in the Battle off Thermopylae
  • Period: 480 BCE to 480

    Battle of Salamis

    The Greeks defeated the Persians in the Battle of Salamis
  • Period: 776 to 776

    First Olympic Games

    First recorded Olympic games. The games were held at Olympia.
  • Period: 850 to 850

    Alphabet

    The Greek alphabet was developed from the Phoenician alphabet