Timeline Unit 2

By Logan N
  • 3000 BCE

    c. 3000 BCE – Early Cycladic Architecture

    c. 3000 BCE – Early Cycladic Architecture
    They had Solid white buildings. the colorful gardens they had was different. They had stone paved paths and the light blue churches. which were their typical characteristics of the Cycladic architecture.
  • 2100 BCE

    c. 2100 BCE – Minoan Architecture

    c. 2100 BCE – Minoan Architecture
    Minoan buildings usually had flat, tiled roofs with plaster, wood or flagstone floors, and usually were two to three stories high. The lower walls were typically constructed of stone and rubble, and the upper walls of mudbrick. the Ceilings were made of timber which held up the roofs.
  • 1600 BCE

    c. 1600 BCE – Mycenaean Architecture

    c. 1600 BCE – Mycenaean Architecture
    The buildings were built around a large rectangular central hall. The Mycenaean center hall was the before for the later Archaic and Classical temples of the Greek world. They had an entrance porch, a vestibule, and the hall itself.
  • 1200 BCE

    c. 1200 BCE – Destruction of Mycenaean Palaces

    c. 1200 BCE – Destruction of Mycenaean Palaces
    The Mycenaean palace centres of mainland Greece. Crete were destroyed along with, presumably, the states they governed. key aspects of palatial culture that had developed over the preceding two centuries, such as writing and administration, were lost or rejected.
  • 1100 BCE

    c. 1100 BCE – Dark Ages Architecture

    c. 1100 BCE – Dark Ages Architecture
    The Greek Dark Ages were earlier regarded as two continuous periods of Greek history. The Postpalatial Bronze Age and the Prehistoric Iron Age or Early Iron Age. They included all the ceramic phases. They lasted until the beginning of the Protohistoric Iron Age around 800 BCE.
  • 900 BCE

    c. 900 BCE – Geometric Period

    c. 900 BCE – Geometric Period
    The Geometric period was a time of like crazy new ideas and changes in Greek society. The population dramatically increased. Proto Urban life
    reemerged, bringing with it overcrowding
    and political like tensions.
  • 800 BCE

    c. 800 BCE – The Archaic Period Begins

    c. 800 BCE – The Archaic Period Begins
    The Greek Archaic Period started from uncertainty, and ended with the Persians being ejected from Greece. For good after the battles of Plataea and Mykale. The Archaic Period is preceded by the Greek Dark Age.
  • 750 BCE

    c. 750 BCE – Development of the Doric Order

    c. 750 BCE – Development of the Doric Order
    The Doric Order of Greek architecture was the first style of stone temple architecture in ancient Greece. It became popular in the Archaic Period. Which replaced the previous style of basic, wood structures.
  • 700 BCE

    c. 700 BCE – First Temples of Stone

    c. 700 BCE – First Temples of Stone
    The art history of the era is generally subdivided into four periods. The Protogeometric the Geometric the Archaic and the Classical. The Archaic which was around the 700 BCE which really started the tall pole like rock structures that showed upfront that everyone thinks about when you say ancient greece.
  • 650 BCE

    c. 650 BCE – Doric Temple Construction

    c. 650 BCE – Doric Temple Construction
    The temple of Hera is a Doric temple. The temple which is long and narrow and has large structure around it. Which is one of the earliest examples of monumental temple construction in Greece.
  • 600 BCE

    c. 600 BCE – Introduction of the Ionic Order

    c. 600 BCE – Introduction of the Ionic Order
    The Ionic order 600 BCE in Ionia. As well as the southwestern coast land and islands of Asia. settled by Ionians, where Ionic Greek was spoken. The Ionic order column was being practiced in mainland Greece in the near years.
  • 580 BCE

    c. 580 BCE – The Temple of Hera at Olympia

    c. 580 BCE – The Temple of Hera at Olympia
    One of the oldest monuments in Greece, the Temple of Hera. Which was made in 580 BCE which was destroyed by an earthquake on the 4th century then rebuilt later. became solely dedicated to the goddess when the great Temple of Zeus was constructed nearby. Today it is at the altar of this temple that the Olympic flame is lit and carried to all parts of the world where the Olympic Games are being held.