significant events in ancient greece

The Bronze Age

2900 BCE

the Broze age was after the stone age but before the dark ages. It was when they had proper tools now and civilizations started growing in greece. Historian a found that there were 3 major civilizations that tell you what they were like at that time. these civilizations eventually met up and combined methods.

The great Minoan civilization

2500 BCE

The Minoan civilization hs a significant part in peoples lifes in the meddterainian. The the minoan civilization started in Crete in 2000 BCE. The famous person to find that the there was minoan civilization and gave the name minoan was Sir Arthur Evans, he gave the name minoan because he discovered ruins from labyrinth a palace with the king monos and turned the name in to Minoan.

the Trojan war

1200 BCE

the war began after the abduction (or elopement) of Queen Helen of Sparta by the Trojan prince Paris. Helen’s jilted husband Menelaus convinced his brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, to lead an expedition to retrieve her. Agamemnon was joined by the Greek heroes Achilles, Odysseus, Nestor and Ajax, and accompanied by a fleet of more than a thousand ships. they fought for ten years until tricked the people of try with a horse the took the horse in there city people came out and the greek won.

The Dark Ages

1050 BCE

During the Dark Ages of Greece the old major settlements were abandoned (with the notable exception of Athens), and the population dropped dramatically in numbers. Within these three hundred years, the people of Greece lived in small groups that moved constantly in accordance with their new pastoral lifestyle and livestock needs, while they left no written record behind leading to the conclusion that they were illiterate.

The First Olympic Games

776 BCE

The Olympic Games started over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in southwest Greece. The Games were part of a religious festival. The Greek Olympics, historians presume that it begun in 776 BC, inspired the modern Olympic Games (begun in 1896) The Games were held in honour of Zeus, king of the gods, and were staged every four years at Olympia, a valley near a city called Elis. People from all over the Greek world came to watch and take part.

Greek Coin currency introduced

600 BCE

Three modern Greek currencies, the first introduced in 1832 and the last replaced by the euro in 2001 (at the rate of 340.750 drachma to the euro). The euro did not begin circulating until 2002 but the exchange rate was fixed on 19 June 2000, with legal introduction of the euro taking place in January 2002.

Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens

505 BCE

Athens was not the only polis in Ancient Greece that instituted a democratic regime. Aristotle cites many other cities as well. "Yet, it is only with reference to Athens that we can attempt to trace some of specific sixth century events that led to the institution of democracy at the end of the century."

Aristotle

384 BCE

Aristotle was born in Stagira in north Greece, the son of Nichomachus, the court physician to the Macedonian royal family. He was trained first in medicine, and then in 367 he was sent to Athens to study philosophy with Plato. He stayed at Plato's Academy until about 347

Philip II becomes the king of the Greeks

359 BCE

The son of Macedonia's King Amyntas III and his wife, Eurydice, Philip II was born in either 383 or 382 B.C. After his brother, Alexander II, took the throne, Philip spent three years, from 368 to 365, as a hostage in Thebes

Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born

356 BCE

Alexander the Great was born in the Pella region of Macedonia on July 20, 356 B.C., to parents King Philip II of Macedon and Queen Olympia, daughter of King Neoptolemus. The young prince and his sister were raised in Pella's royal court.

classical period

323 BCE

The arts of ancient Greece have exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries all over the world, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture. In the West, the art of the Roman Empire was largely derived from Greek models.

alexander the great is dead

323 BCE

The exact cause of Alexander's death is unknown. Historians have debated the issue for centuries, attributing it to poison, malaria, typhoid fever or other maladies. What is agreed upon is that the Macedonian king died in early June 323 BC while suffering a high fever that had lasted ten days.