Humanities Timeline :)

  • 323

    BC Alexander the Great dies

  • 404

    BC Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends

  • 431

    BC The Peloponnesian War begins – Sparta and her allies vs Athens and her allies

  • 432

    BC The Parthenon is completed

  • Jan 1, 776

    BC First Pan Hellenic athletes contests ( Olympic Games )

  • Jan 1, 1100

    BC The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed onthe Asia Minor coast.

  • Jan 1, 1400

    BC Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World

  • BC Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive ( first known Greek‐speaking tribes )

  • ‐800 BC New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop

  • BC Homer writes the ILIAD

  • BC Democracy develops

  • BC First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon

  • BC Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they are triumphant at SALAMIS and PLATAEA

  • BC Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece

  • BC Alexander conquers the Persian Empire

  • BC Rome conquers Greece