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Timeline: Historical Overview of Ancient Greece

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Timeline: Historical Overview of Ancient

Greece

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Time Periods of Greece:Early Bronze Age

Minoan Age

Mycenaenan Age

Dark Ages

Archaic Period

Classical or Golden Age

Hellenistic

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2900 to 2000 BCE

introduction of metallurgy, specifically bronze, to create tools and weapons

Early Bronze Age

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2000 to 1400 BCE

Bronze Age civilization centering on the island of Crete

named after the legendary King Minos

Minoan Age

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1400 to 1100 BCE

period of high cultural achievement

cut short by the Dorians or perhaps civil war (or both) ushering in the Dark Ages

Mycenaean Age

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1100 to 750 BCE

thats about it...

Dark Ages

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750 to 500 BCE

beginnings of stone sculpture

rise of the polis

rise of the aristocracies

Greek colonization of Southern Italy and Sicily begins

Archaic Period

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500 to 336 BCE

the golden age of Greece

conflict with Persia

Athens reaches its height

building of the Parthenon

time of-- Sophocles, Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great

Classical Period

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336 to 146 BCE

after the conquests of Alexander and the rise of Roman supremacy

spreading of Greek culture and learning

Hellenistic Period