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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece. Mesolithic Period 8300BC-7000BC. Earliest evidence of burials found in Franchthi Cave in the Argolid , Greece

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Ancient Greece

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  1. Ancient Greece

  2. Mesolithic Period8300BC-7000BC • Earliest evidence of burials found in Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece • The cave was occupied from the Palaeolithic circa 20 through the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, being abandoned about 3000 BC . It is one of the very few settlements in the world that shows continuous human occupation for more than 20,000 years.

  3. Neolithic Period7000BC-3000BC • Evidence of food producing economy, simple hut construction, and seafaring in mainland Greece and the Aegean

  4. Bronze Age3000-1100BC • Mycenean enter mainland Greece • The Mycenaean civilization flourished during the period roughly between 1600 BC • The height of Minoan Civilization is reached • The Minoan civilization, a Bronze Age civilization, arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC • The Trojan War, civil war, and the fall of the Mycenean

  5. Dark Age1100-800BC • End of Mycenean age and civilization. Early city states are ruled through monarchy. • No more monumental stone buildings were built and the practice of wall painting may have stopped.

  6. Archaic Period800-500BC • 776BC First Olympic games • Coin currency introduced. • Lydian electrum trite-This coin type, made of a gold and silver alloy, was in all likelihood the world's first, minted • Persian invasion and conquest of Greek territories through out Asia Minor.

  7. Classical Period500-400BC • First Persian invasion of Greece, the Battle of Marathon. • The founding of the DelianLeague • was an association of 173 Greek city-states under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire • The Peloponnesian War • The Peloponnesian War, 431 to 404 BC, was an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta

  8. Late Classical Period400-330BC • Warfare between rival Greek leagues • The Peloponnesian War, 431 to 404 BC, was an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta leads the Greek City States.

  9. Hellenistic Age330-30BC • First Roman victories over Greece • Corinth , a Greek city state, destroyed by the Romans • Athens is sacked by Sulla. • Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman.

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