Ancient Greece By jlandes510 Period: 2000 BCE to 100 BCE Ancient Greece - Major Points 1600 BCE Minoan civilization reaches its height/greatest success 1400 BCE Mycenaean’s settle & take control of the Aegean Sea 1250 BCE Trojan War 750 BCE Greek polis’ take shape 750 BCE Homer writes the epic poems of the Iliad & the Odyssey 480 BCE Xerxes, King of Persia, sends troops to conquer Greeks: the Greco-Persian War begins 460 BCE Age of Pericles marks the height of Democracy in Athens 431 BCE Peloponnesian War breaks out 399 BCE Socrates is executed 387 BCE - Plato established the Academy 338 BCE King Philip II gains the throne as King of Macedonia 335 BCE Aristotle establishes the Lyceum 332 BCE Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire