early Greek and Roman civilization

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  • 1600 BCE

    Minoan civilization as its height

  • 594 BCE

    Solon appointed archon

  • 509 BCE

    the Romans establish a republic

  • 460 BCE

    age or Pericles marks the height of democracy in Athens

  • 431 BCE

    pelopennesian war begins

  • 331 BCE

    Alexander the great conquers the Persian empire

  • 323 BCE

    the Hellenistic age begins

  • 218 BCE

    the Carthaginian general Hannibal invades Italy during the Punic wars

  • 133 BCE

    dominance in the Mediterranean passes from Greece to Rome

  • 27

    the roman republic ends. Augustus founds the roman empire

  • 284

    Diocletian divides the roman empire into two parts

  • 312

    the capital of the roman empire moves eastward to Constantinople

  • 392

    Christianity becomes the official roman religion

  • 476

    odoacer a Germanic leader unseats the last roman emperor