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Late 4th-

2nd millennium Cretan Civilization at peak

ca. 1900 First Greeks ("Mycenaeans") appear on mainland

1700 Destruction of palaces at Knossos and Phaistos

1400 End of Cretan supremancy

1600-1150 Mycenaean period

(ca) 1200 Sack of Troy

1200-1150 Fall of Mycenean centers

1100-750 Dark Ages

750 Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey composed

Major Colonization

Alphabet and writing

Pan-Hellenic Religious centers

Olympic Games run

Temple form of architecture createdThe Polis forms

Coinage introduced (in Asia Minor)

8th-7th c Sparta vs Messenia

Unification of Attica

710 Hesiod

700-500 Age of Tyrants

670s Lycurgan reforms, Sparta

632 Cylon's attempted tyranny in Athens

621 Draco publishes legal code at Athens594 Solon's Athenian reforms

561-527 Pisistratus's tyranny in Athens

6th C Peloponessian League

560-546 Croesus of Lydia conquers Asian Greeks

546 Persians conquer Lydia

(559-530 Cyrus the Great of Persia)

527-510 Hippias/Hipparchos succeed Pisistratus

521-485 Reign of Darius

512 Darius invades Scythia; Ionioan cities threaten to

revolt; Darius subdues Thrace; demands tribute of KingAmyntas of Macedonia

514 Harmodius/Aristogeiton murder Hipparchos

510-508 Cleisthenes institutes reforms in Athens

500-499 Ionian Rebellion, led by Aristagorus

491 Mardonius to Athens/Eretria to punish for help in Ionian

revolt: defeated

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372 Thebans, under Epanimondas, defeat Sparta at Leuctra;

end of Spartan hegemony

362 Battle of Mantinea: end of Theban hegemony

359-336 Reign of Philip II of Macedon

338 Battle of Chaeronea: Philip conquers Greece

338 League of Corinth founded

336-323 Alexander's reign

334 Alexander invades Asia

334 Battles of Issus, Granicus

332 Alexander to Egypt (Ammon Ra in Libya)

331 Gaugamela

330 Fall of Persopolis

327 Alexander to India

326 Alexander defeats Porus at Hydaspes

323 Alexander dies in Babylon306-272 Alexander's generals, Antigonus, Ptolemy,

and Seleucus assume royal titles.

The Seleucids rule in Syria, Mesopotamia,

and Iran; The Antigonids in Macedonia; The

Ptolemies in Egypt; also The Atalids

in Pergmamom

272-146 Hellenistic Civilization's peak

212-205 First Macedonia War Rome vs Philip V

213-211 Roman Seige vs Syracuse

200-197 Second Macedonia War Rome vs Philip V

191-188 Syrian Wars. Rome vs. Antiochus III

171-167 Third Macedonia War. Rome Vs Perseus

148-146 Fourth Macedonia War. Macedonia reduced

to Roman province. Corinth razed.

30 Cleopatra dies; Egypt annexed by Rome