Ancient Greek

By HarmanJIT
  • 2000 BCE

    2000-1000 BC

    Dorian and Ionian Greeks lived in family groups or tribes, leading a wandering or nomadic existence all over northern Greece
  • 1000 BCE

    1000-700 BC

    These nomadic groups invaded and settled throughout Greece. They destroyed other important civilisations
  • 800 BCE

    800-550 BC

    A period of expansion. Greeks moved out from their city-states and established colonies throughout the Mediterranean area and created an empire
  • 750 BCE

    750-700 BC

    A famous Greek, Homer, created his epic stories The lliad & The Odyssey. His stories involved heroes, dangerous journeys to strange lands, exotic and deadly monsters, and love and war.
  • 600 BCE

    600-500 BC

    This period is known as The Golden age of Greek civilisation. It's known as gold because many new ways of governing, thinking and creating were experimented with. Examples of this would be the democratic laws and reforms in the city-states of Athens.
  • 500 BCE

    500-300 BC

    This was the era of decline of Greek city-state and the rise of the are of Greece known as Macedonia.
  • 336 BCE

    336-324 BC

    Alexander the Great becomes the king of Macedonia. He was a famous leader and military commander, and created a large Empire
    which extended from the Mediterranean to the Middle East but his Empire crumbled soon after his death