Math & History: May 2023

Geography, Politics and Society

Geography

Polis

Periods

I. The Bronze Age (3300 - 1150 BCE)

Minoan Age (2,000 - 1,450 BCE)

Minoan Age On The Island Crete

Mythology: King Minos, The Minotaur

Mycenean Period (1,600 - 1,100 BCE)

Mycenean Period On Mainland Greece

Mythology: Iliad and Odyssey

Timeline

-1650 BCE - 1550 BCE

Eruption of Thera (modern day Santorini) and consequent tidal waves, destruction of Akrotiri and other Aegean centres.

II. The Dark Ages (1100 - 700 BCE)

Timeline

-1100 BCE

Dorian peoples occupy Greece.

III. The Archaic Period (700 - 480 BCE)

Timeline

-508 BCE

Reforms by Cleisthenes establishes democracy in Athens.

-490 BCE

Battle of Marathon: The Athenian hoplites under the command of Miltiades defeated the Persians in the Battle of Marathon.

-483 BCE

Themistocles persuades the Athenians to significantly expand their fleet, which saves them at Salamis and becomes their source of power.

-480 BCE

Second Persian War: King Xerxes led an invasion force into Greece. He is delayed by the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae. Later in the year, a Greek coalition defeated the Persian navy at the Battle of Salamis. At the Battle of Platea, the Greeks finally drive the Persians from Greece.

IV. The Classical Period (480 - 323 BCE)

-460 BCE - 445 BCE

First Peloponnesian War.

-447 BCE

Construction of the Parthenon begins. It is completed in 432 BCE.

V. The Hellenistic Period (323 - 146 BCE)

Citation and Reference

Periods

Book: World History - Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 (Berger et al.): Chronology

Timelines

https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/greece/

https://classicalwisdom.com/culture/history/timeline-of-ancient-greek-history/