Ancient Greece - Dates

Pytanie 1

Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilisations

Pytanie 2

Start of Minoan civilisations

Pytanie 3

Minoan civilisation starts to decline

Pytanie 4

Eruption of volcano on Thera

Pytanie 5

First Olympic Games

Pytanie 6

Homer receives credit for writing the Illiad and Odyssey

Pytanie 7

First Greek colonies established on the island now known as Sicily

Pytanie 8

Female poet Sappho born on the Greek island of Lesbos

Pytanie 9

Cleisthenes creates democratic government in Athens

Pytanie 10

Battle of Marathon

Pytanie 11

Battle of Thermopylae

Pytanie 12

Herodotus writes his account of the Persian War.

Pytanie 13

Construction of Parthenon is started in Athens

Pytanie 14

Peloponnesian War begins

Pytanie 15

End of Peloponnesian War

Pytanie 16

Philip of Macedonia conquers majority of Greek city-states

Pytanie 17

Alexander the Great dies

Pytanie 18

Rome finally defeats Macedon, forcing it to give up the Greek city-states it formerly controlled

Pytanie 19

Rome conquers Corinth, the last resisting city-state in Greece.

Pytanie 20

Ancient Greece collapses