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Timeline. c. 6000 BCE - 2900 BCE. Neolithic Age settlements in Greece, beginning of agriculture. c. 3200 BCE - 1100 BCE. The Cycladic Civilization in Greece. 2300 BCE. Bronze is used in the Aegean. 2200 BCE - 1500 BCE. The Minoan Civilization flourishes on Crete, Greece.
Between 750 B.C. and 600 B.C., Greek colonies sprang up from the Mediterranean to Asia Minor, from North Africa to the coast of the Black Sea. By the end of the seventh century...
Ancient Greek civilization, the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended about 1200 BCE, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BCE. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific achievements that formed a legacy with unparalleled influence on Western civilization.
Classical Greece, a period between the Persian Wars and the death of Alexander the Great, was marked by conflict as well as political and cultural achievements.
Ancient Greece is considered by many historians and scholars as one of the most influential civilizations to ever exist. The history of this civilization and its people is often divided into three main periods – the Archaic Period, the Classical Period, and the Hellenistic Period.
This is a timeline of ancient Greece from its emergence around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages, Aegean civilizations and Mycenaean Greece. For later times see Roman Greece, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Greece. For modern Greece after 1820, see Timeline of modern Greek history.
Browse through this ancient Greek timeline to examine more than a millennium of Greek history. The beginning is prehistory. Later, Greek history combined with the history of the Roman Empire. During the Byzantine Period Greek and Roman Empire history were back in geographically Greek hands, again.
Timeline. Generally, the history of Greece is divided into the following periods: Prehistoric Greece: Paleolithic Greece, starting c. 3.3 million years ago and ending in 20,000 BC.
Flourishing more than 3,000 years ago (c. 1,000 BC to c. 300 BC), ancient Greece, thanks to its many contributions to human culture, was one of the most successful ancient civilizations in history. And it remains a model civilization even today.
Chronology - Greek History, Timekeeping, Calendars: As the cities of ancient Greece progressed to their classical maturity, the need arose among them for a chronological system on a universally understood basis.