Greek Time Line

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  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Beginning of Mycenaean Period

  • 1250 BCE

    Trojan War

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 500 BCE

    Formation of Greek city-states

  • 776 BCE

    Introduction to the Olympic Games

  • 725 BCE

    Greeks create a strong water based military

  • 725 BCE

    Sparta creates a military centered city state

  • 700 BCE

    Greek mythology.

    first written cosmogony, or origin story, of Greek mythology.
  • 650 BCE

    The Rise of the Greek Tyrants

  • 600 BCE

    Coin Currency Introduced

  • 492 BCE

    Persian wars united Athens and Sparta

    against the Persian Empire.
  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

    Athenian victories over the Persians at Marathon and Salamis left Greeks in control of the Aegean Sea.
  • Period: 460 BCE to 429 BCE

    Rebuilding Athens after Persian Wars

  • Period: 445 BCE to 429 BCE

    Age of Pericles

  • 430 BCE

    Bubonic Plague in Athens

  • Period: 382 BCE to 336 BCE

    Philip II of Macedon

    Conquered most of Greece and Father of Alexander the Great
  • Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    Established an empire from Greece to Egypt and the margins of India
  • Period: 8 BCE to 146 BCE

    civilization

  • 7 BCE

    Graco

  • 5 BCE

    Solon

  • Period: 5 BCE to 4 BCE

    Govt.

    democracy.
  • 4 BCE

    Greece started an Oligarchy

  • Period: 431 to 404

    Peloponnesian War

  • Period: 499 to 499

    Persian Wars