Timeline: Historical Overview of Ancient...
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Timeline: Historical Overview of Ancient
Greece
Time Periods of Greece:Early Bronze Age
Minoan Age
Mycenaenan Age
Dark Ages
Archaic Period
Classical or Golden Age
Hellenistic
2900 to 2000 BCE
introduction of metallurgy, specifically bronze, to create tools and weapons
Early Bronze Age
2000 to 1400 BCE
Bronze Age civilization centering on the island of Crete
named after the legendary King Minos
Minoan Age
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
1100 to 750 BCE
thats about it...
Dark Ages
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
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
336 to 146 BCE
after the conquests of Alexander and the rise of Roman supremacy
spreading of Greek culture and learning
Hellenistic Period