Module 1 Ancient Greece

  • Cave Art
    8000 BCE

    Cave Art

    These drawings show the life of ancient people. Content includes hunting and weapons of the time, bow and arrows.
  • Period: 8000 BCE to 1 CE

    Important Events from Ancient Greece

  • Food Producing Community
    7000 BCE

    Food Producing Community

    Farms arise growing wheat and barley while goats and pigs are raised for food. Simple huts become the homestead of the ancient people.
  • Rectangular House
    5300 BCE

    Rectangular House

    First permanent structure is build. Indicating the domestication of crops is successful and art begins to flourish.
  • Domestication and Nomads
    5000 BCE

    Domestication and Nomads

    Animals and produce are domisticated; however, people are constantly on the move evident by the lack of permanent structures.
  • Villages and Obsidian
    4000 BCE

    Villages and Obsidian

    Circular towns are being erected and Greece's productive sailing introduces outside materials, obsedian, that is being turned into art.
  • Burials and Food Storage
    3500 BCE

    Burials and Food Storage

    Single tombs are becoming more common and silos are housing the abundance of agriculture.
  • Township civilization
    2500 BCE

    Township civilization

    With the agricultural success more people are creating permanent residency and town are being built at a new pace.
  • Abstract Marble Sculptures
    2500 BCE

    Abstract Marble Sculptures

    Top artist of the time are creating detailed works of art of to be placed inside of tombs.
  • Minoan Civilization
    1500 BCE

    Minoan Civilization

    Simple towns are being replaced with exquisite palaced. Commmerce is coming to these city centers and marble statues have come a long way from the early works. Two scripts have been adopted and record keeping becomes written.
  • Olympic Games
    776 BCE

    Olympic Games

    Running and wrestling are the first sports to be on display in this every 4th year event. Chariot racing is soon to follow.
  • Emigrant and Literature
    750 BCE

    Emigrant and Literature

    Greek citizens hit the seas and begin to set up civilizations in foreign lands. Literature blossoms with the lliad and Odyessy
  • Love and War
    650 BCE

    Love and War

    Poetry is in the air; wiritings about the adoration of Aphrodite. While the country is ravaged by violence in the Second Messian War.
  • Legal Troubles
    593 BCE

    Legal Troubles

    Draconian law is displaced by Athnian Archon Salon which opens the door for democarcy. Citizenship is extended to atists and weight and measures is introduced to aid commerce.
  • Birth of Democracy
    508 BCE

    Birth of Democracy

    Kleisthenes brings a democratic constitution to Athens.
  • War and Partheon
    450 BCE

    War and Partheon

    Greece defeats Persians and is able to remain soverign. The iconic Partheon is built.
  • Philosophy Death and Rebirth
    380 BCE

    Philosophy Death and Rebirth

    Socrates is forced to drink deadly hemlock to quiet his inquisitive views, but soon after Plato opens the Academy at Athens.
  • Greatness Dies
    323 BCE

    Greatness Dies

    After a successful ruling and mass expansion of Greek influence, Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, dies.
  • War Creates Split
    167 BCE

    War Creates Split

    After theThird Macedonian War. Macedon is divided into four republics.
  • End of an Era
    48 BCE

    End of an Era

    Greek powerhouse is defeated by Julius Caesar leader of the Roman army at the Battle of Pharsalus in northern.