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Period: 1700 BCE to 1100 BCE
Mycenean
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1100 BCE
The Trojan war
The Trojan war is berried within myth and legend but within the story of the Iliad and odyssey you can pick out the base of Greece over powering the city of Troy -
Period: 1100 BCE to 702 BCE
Greek dark ages
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776 BCE
The First Olympic Games
The modern day Olympic actually started as a sports event in honor of Zeus, it too took place every 4 years and took place in Olympia -
600 BCE
The First Greek Coins
these coins where the made currency and offering to the gods, often made of silver but sometime gold -
570 BCE
Birth of Pythagoras
The father of the "Pythagorean Theorem" that we still use today, he was a brilliant scientist and mathematician. -
480 BCE
Greeks vs Persians
Greeks battled fiercely with the Persians in the infamous battle of Thermopylae -
Period: 480 BCE to 323 BCE
Greek Classic Period
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355 BCE
The birth of Alexander the Great
The man who took the East Mediterranean for the Greeks and expanded the empire -
323 BCE
Alexander Dies
His death signals the downfall of Greece as they knew it and the start of the Hellenistic period -
Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE
Hellenistic
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146 BCE
Rome Takes Greece
Rome consumes Greece into the roman empire, but the culture and rule was still held in Egypt -
31 BCE
Rome Takes Egypt
Officially Ending the Hellenistic Era and the death the ancient Greece
