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Period: 3000 BCE to 1400 BCE
The Minoan Civilization
This civilization was developed in Crete. Its name came from the mythological king Minos. This island is located in the middle of the routes that joined Asia, Europe and Africa. It became rich because it trade.
The Minoans seem to have always given a predominant role to goddesses, which is why their religion has sometimes been described as "matriarchal." -
Period: 1400 BCE to 1100 BCE
The Mycenaeans civilization
The name became for the famous cities. Composed of small states with palaces. The main activity is agriculture. They live in Peloponnese. -
Period: 1100 BCE to 776 BCE
The Dorians civilization
The Greek Dark Age began, because it was a period of economic and cultural decline. A period of economy and cultural decline. -
776 BCE
Olympic games, agriculture and commerce.
Poleis met together in panhellenic festivals like the olimpic games. In olympia. In the Archaid civilization the people worked in agriculture and commerce which made some poleis, like Athens, very wealthy. -
Period: 776 BCE to 480 BCE
Archaid civilization
With the foundation of the Olympic Games and the Second Persian invasion of Greece, forming notional starting and ending dates. -
Period: 770 BCE to 770 BCE
Agriculture and commerce.
In the Archaid civilization the people worked in agriculture and commerce which made some poleis, like Athens, very wealthy. -
Period: 480 BCE to 1 CE
Hellenistic civilization.
Hellenistic culture thus represents a fusion of the ancient Greek world with that of Western Asian, Northeastern African, and Southwestern Asian. This mixture gave rise to a common Attic-based Greek dialect, known as Koine Greek, which became the lingua franca throughout the ancient world. -
431 BCE
The Peloponnesian War
In these wars, the Delian League, led by Athens, and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, faced each other. -
800
Alphabet
In the 8th century BC the greeks had already adopted the Phoenican alphabet.