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Dorian and Ionian Greeks lived in family groups or tribes, leading a wandering or nomadic existence all over northern Greece.
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A period of expansion. Greeks moved out from their city-states and established colonies throughout the Meditteranean area. They created an empire.
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A famous Greek, Homer, created his epic stories The Iliad and The Odyssey. His stories involved, heroes, dangerous journeys to strange lands, exotic and deadly monsters, and love and war.
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These nomadic groups destroyed other important civilisations in the area.
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This period is known as the Golden Age of Greek civilisation. It is seen as golden 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-state of Athens.
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The decline of the Greek city-state and the rise of the area of Greece known Macedonia.
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Alexander the Great becomes 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. The empire disintegrated after his death.
