Classical athens and acropolis

Ancient Greece

  • Period: 2600 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Bronze age greece, mycenaens and Minoans flourished.

  • 776 BCE

    first Olympic games

  • 570 BCE

    pythagores is born and later develops geometry

  • 490 BCE

    democracy begins in Athens,

    Greek and persian wars,
  • Period: 490 BCE to 480 BCE

    Greek and persian wars

  • 432 BCE

    parthenon is completed in Athens

  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    the peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta

  • 336 BCE

    Alexander the great becomes king of Macedonia

  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the great dies in Babylon