Greek Chronology

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Aegean Sea

• The originally Greek world is, properly speaking,
  in the Aegean Sea area (both mainland Greece, the
  islands, and the Ionian coast)
• But in practice, the Greeks (and their myths)
  spanned all over the Mediterranean World.

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Aegean Chronology

• C. 2000 Rise of Minoan Civilization on Crete
• C. 1600 Rise of Mycenaean Civilization on
  Mainland Greece
• C. 1450 First destruction of Minoan Crete
• C. 1200 Collapse of Mycenaean Civilization
• C. 1200 Second destruction of Minoan Crete (then
  controlled by Mycenaeans)
• 900 End of Greek Dark Age and beginning of
  Geometric Period
• C. 750 Spread of Greek colonization throughout
  Mediterranean

• 700 Beginning of Archaic Period
• C. 505 Democracy founded at Athens
• 490-80 Persians invaded Greece and are defeated
  twice (Classical Age begins)
• 404 Sparta finally defeats Athens in
  Peloponnesian Wars (Greek city-states are
  crippled by the exhausting 30 years war that
  spread through all of Greek world)
• 349-38 Philip of Macedon Conquers Greece
  (Classical Age ends)
• 336 Alexander the Great rises to throne of
  Philip, his father. Hellenistic Age begins as
  Alexander spreads Greek culture to all areas of
  the known world (which he conquers)
• 197-60 Rome Conquers Macedonia eventually all
  of Greece.

All dates B.C.E.