Greek Timeline

Place the following information into a "timeline"

Time period

Year

Event

  • 3,000 BCE to 1200 BCE – The Bronze Age
  • 1,200 - 800 BCE – The Dark Age
  • 800 BCE - 480 BCE – The Archaic Period
  • 480 - 323 BCE – The Classical Period
  • 323 - 30 BCE – The Hellenistic Age
  • 336 - 323 BCE 
  • 507 BCE 
  • 776 BCE 
  • 1,150 BCE 
  • 490 BCE 
  • 200 - 196 BCE 
  • 800 BCE 
  • 1,100 - 1,000 BCE 
  • 443 - 429 BCE 
  • 546 BCE 
  • 338 BCE 
  • 31 BCE
  • 480 BCE 
  • 1,700 - 1,500 BCE 
  • 431 - 404 BCE 
  • 1,200 BCE 
  • 395 - 340 BCE 
  • Alexander the Great's reign begins.
  • Cleisthenes' democratic constitution.
  • Date of the first Olympic games.
  • Dorian Immigration into Greece mainland.
  • First Persian invasion of Greece, the Battle of Marathon.
  • First Roman victories over Greece.
  • Homer writes the Odyssey and Iliad
  • Ionian Immigration to Asia Minor.
  • Pericles is leader of Athens during the Golden Age.
  • Persian invasion and conquest of Greek territories through out Asia Minor.
  • Philip of Macedonia rules the Greek City States.
  • Rome assumes total control of the region with the defeat of Egypt
  • Second Persian invasion of Greece, Spartans are defeated at Thermopylae, Athens is occupied by the Persians. The Persians are finally defeated at Salamis.
  • The height of Minoan Civilization is reached.
  • The Peloponnesian War, ending with Athens surrendering to Sparta.
  • The Trojan War, civil war, and the fall of the Mycenaean civilization
  • Warfare between rival Greek leagues.