GRECIA

MINOICA CIVILIZATION

3000 BCE

It was a Pre-Hellenistic culture of the Bronze Age, developed on the island of Crete between the years 3000 and 1200 BC
2100 aC boom of Minoan culture

MYCENAEAN ERA

1400 BCE

It was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, covering the period between approximately 1600 and 1100 BC.
1200 aC war of choice

THE TROJAN WAR

1250 BCE

The existence of the Trojan war has always been ambiguous and debatable. Where some scholars take it as a myth, others have found solid evidence pointing towards their reality. The Trojan War, in Greek mythology, is the battle between Trojan people and the Greeks

DARK TIME

1150 BCE

The dark Greek age is the period that has elapsed since the collapse of the Mycenaean world (between 1200 BC and 1100 BC)

THE EMERGENCE OF GREECE

800 BCE

During the 8th century BC, Greece began to emerge from the dark Greek age that had happened to the Mycenaean civilization and the Minoan civilization. Literacy had been lost and the Mycenaean writing had been forgotten. The Greeks, however, adapted the Phoenician alphabet to Greek and began writing from 800 BC

INTRODUCTION TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES

776 BCE

The ancient Olympic Games were considered primarily as part of a religious festival that took place in honor of the father of Greek gods and goddesses,

THE RiISE OF THE GREEK TYRANTS

650 BCE

The tyrants were oppressive rulers in Greece. They were influential opportunists who remained in power with the help of mercenary soldiers. The tyrants often emerged from the aristocracy, and the force of public dislike of them varied from place to place.

COIN CURRENCY INTRODUCED

600 BCE

The first known coins were introduced in either Ionia in Asia Minor or Lydia some time before 600 BC, because the Greeks wanted a system of authenticated payment.

CLASSICAL GREECE

490 BCE

It is the period of the history of Greece between the revolt of Jonia
479 aC End of the medical wars.
461 aC Pericles government.
404 aC End of the Peloponnesian War.

BUBONIC PLAGUE IN ATHENS

430 BCE

The terrible Plague of Athens was an epidemic which ravaged every corner of the city. It is said to have been introduced through the city’s port Piraeus which was the only point of entry for food and supplies. The plague affected the whole of the Mediterranean region, although the outbreak in Athens was the most severe. The disease returned twice, in 429 BC and in the winter of 427/426 BC.

HELLENIC GREECE

334 BCE

It is the Hellenistic period in the history of peninsular Greece and begins at 334 aC and ends in 146 BC
323 aC The death of Alexander the Great

ARCHAIC GREECE

800

Archaic time is a periodization of the history of ancient Greece with which the historiography distinguishes the stage in which the Hèlade left the dark period, characterized by the distribution of the age, Hellenic space between tribes.776 aC first Olympiad