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Greek History

By abbyy64
  • 7250 BCE

    Mesolithic Period

    Earliest evidence of burials found.
  • 7000 BCE

    Neolithic Period

    Evidence of food producing economy.
  • 2000 BCE

    First Settlers

    Wandering tribes begin to settle in Greece.
  • 1194 BCE

    Trojan War

    Trojan War
    War between Greeks and the Trojans began.
  • 850 BCE

    Alphabet

    Alphabet
    The Greek alphabet was developed from the Phoenician alphabet.
  • 800 BCE

    Homer

    He was a poet. Composed his poems-the Iliad and the Odyssey.
  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

    First Olympic Games
    First recorded Olympic games.
  • 600 BCE

    Money

    Money
    The first Greek coins appeared.
  • 495 BCE

    Pythagoras

    The philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras, died in Mentholatum.
  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

    Battle of Marathon
    The Greeks defeated the Persians in the Battle of Marathon.
  • 490 BCE

    First Persian War

    First Persian War
    The First Persian war began when Persian sent an invasion force into Athens in retaliation for its participation in a Greek raid on Persia.
  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Salamis

    The Greeks defeated the Persians in the Battle of Salamis
  • 480 BCE

    Second Persian War

    The second Persian was began when Persia's King Xerxes led an invasion force into Greece
  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Thermopylae

    Battle of Thermopylae
    The Persians defeated the Greeks in the Battle off Thermopylae.
  • 431 BCE

    Peloponnese War

    Athens and Sparta broke out and continued.
  • 403 BCE

    Democracy

    Helped pick a leader among the citizens.
  • 359 BCE

    Philip II

    Philip II became King of Macedon.
  • 347 BCE

    Plato

    Founder of The Academy and author of The Repubic died in Athens.
  • 339 BCE

    Catapult

    The Catapult was invented at Syracuse.
  • 338 BCE

    League of Corinth

    The League of Corinth, a federation of Greek states, was founded by Philip II to boost support against Persia.
  • 338 BCE

    Battle of Chaeronea

    Philip II, King of Macedon conquered Greece
  • 336 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    Alexander became King of Macedon
  • 335 BCE

    The Lyceum

    Aristotle founded the Lyceum in Athens.
  • 333 BCE

    Persia

    Alexander conquered the Persians and declared himself kind of Persia.
  • 331 BCE

    Egypt

    Alexander conquered Egypt and made Alexandria the capital of his newly gained land.
  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great
    Alexander the Great died, his son was not yet born.
  • 265 BCE

    Euclid

    The inventor of geometry, died
  • 212 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    The mathematician and engineer, Archimedes, was assassinated in Syracuse.
  • 146 BCE

    Roman Empire

    The Romans defeated the Greeks at the Battle of Corinth and Greece became part if the Roman Empire

  • Greece was founded

    Greece was founded
    People found Greece.