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