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5 BCE
economy
At its economic height, in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, ancient Greece was the most advanced economy in the world. According to some economic historians, it was one of the most advanced pre-industrial economies. This is demonstrated by the average daily wage of the Greek worker which was, in terms of wheat, about 12 kg. This was more than 3 times the average daily wage of an Egyptian worker during the Roman period, about 3.75 kg -
323
hellenistic greece
The Hellenistic period lasted from 323 BC, which marked the end of the wars of Alexander the Great, to the annexation of Greece by the Roman Republic in 146 BC. Although the establishment of Roman rule did not break the continuity of Hellenistic society and culture, which remained essentially unchanged until the advent of Christianity, it did mark the end of Greek political independence. -
600
duration of greece
Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity c. AD 600 -
Period: 1100 to 750
European continental Greece
The northern area of the Balkan Peninsula, characterized by the alternation of tabular relief and steppe plain, was the area of greatest contact with the rest of Eastern Europe. There the ancient Thessaly, Macedonia, Etolia, Acarnania and Epirus were established. The central area, difficultly communicated with the former through narrow gorges and an equally irregular terrain of massifs and plains, saw the ancient regions of Dorida, Phocis -
Period: 1100 to 8
dark age
From 1100 to the VIII century a. C. is known as the Dark Age-following the collapse of the Bronze Age. From this stage no primary text has survived, and there is only little archaeological evidence. Some secondary and tertiary texts contain short chronologies and lists of the kings of this period, including History of Herodotus, Description of Greece of Pausanias, Historical Library of Diodoro Sículo and Chronicon de Jerónimo. -
Period: 1400 to 1150
Recent mycenaic
The so-called Mycenaean civilization - in consideration of the privileged and dominant position of Mycenae, the land of the Achaeans - reached its climax at this time, which occupies an important place in the famous epic poems of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. This culture collapsed spectacularly towards 1150 a. C. but the cause of the collapse is unknown and there are several theses in this respect. One of them attributes the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization to the invasion of dorios -
Period: to 1400
Recent helical or ancient mycene
Period of successive immigration of livestock villages (aqueos, jonios), who knew the metals, introduced the car of war and amber. They built the monumental strongholds of Mycenae, Tirinto and Pilos, and shaped their surrounding cities. They traded with Troya, Sicily and the Itálica peninsula. They expanded their domains and founded colonies in Miletus, Rhodes, Pamphylia, Lycia and Cyprus. -
Period: to
Middle helid
Conformed by equally agrarian populations with polishing and chromatic enrichment of ceramics. They began to use the horse and carry out burial practices of corpses -
Period: to
Old heladic
Conformed by ceramist populations of agrarian culture (possibly related to Carius and Etruscans) that dominated Aegean territory; of non-Indo-European languages -
Period: to
Prehistoric Civilization and Bronze Age
The first finds of human life in Greek territory show the existence of native populations in the Paleolithic, around 7000 BC. C.7 About 6000 a. C.It is believed that the tribes that would become the Greeks migrated southwards to the Balkans in various waves beginning in the mid-Bronze Age (around 2000 BC).Other sources indicate a migration process already in the fifth millennium BC. C., from Mesopotamia and Syria.
