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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
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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. -
5300 BCE
Rectangular House
First permanent structure is build. Indicating the domestication of crops is successful and art begins to flourish. -
5000 BCE
Domestication and Nomads
Animals and produce are domisticated; however, people are constantly on the move evident by the lack of permanent structures. -
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. -
3500 BCE
Burials and Food Storage
Single tombs are becoming more common and silos are housing the abundance of agriculture. -
2500 BCE
Township civilization
With the agricultural success more people are creating permanent residency and town are being built at a new pace. -
2500 BCE
Abstract Marble Sculptures
Top artist of the time are creating detailed works of art of to be placed inside of tombs. -
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. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
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. -
508 BCE
Birth of Democracy
Kleisthenes brings a democratic constitution to Athens. -
450 BCE
War and Partheon
Greece defeats Persians and is able to remain soverign. The iconic Partheon is built. -
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. -
323 BCE
Greatness Dies
After a successful ruling and mass expansion of Greek influence, Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, dies. -
167 BCE
War Creates Split
After theThird Macedonian War. Macedon is divided into four republics. -
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.