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Ancient Greece - Historical Events

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  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1 BCE

    Ancient Greece BC

  • The development of the Greek alphabet
    800 BCE

    The development of the Greek alphabet

    It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the first alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. It is the ancestor of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
  • The First Olympiad
    776 BCE

    The First Olympiad

    An Olympiad is a period of four years associated with the Olympic Games of the Ancient Greeks.The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin.
  • Alexander The Great becomes the ruler of Greece
    336 BCE

    Alexander The Great becomes the ruler of Greece

    After Philip's assassination in 336 BC, he succeeded his father to the throne and inherited a strong kingdom and an experienced army. Alexander was awarded the generalship of Greece and used this authority to launch his father's pan-Hellenic project to lead the Greeks in the conquest of Persia.