Time Line

4000 B. C.	Neolithic Period	nomads settled in Greece and towns begin to develop.
1700 - 1100 B. C.	Bronze or Herioic Age	from the rise of the Minoans through the Mycenaeans
1700 B. C.	The Island of Crete is invaded by the Greeks
1400 B. C.	Rise of the Mycenean culture on the Peloponnese
1200 B. C.	Invasions - Decline of the Mycenaean civilization
1184 B. C.	Trojan Horse - Greeks conquer Troy
1100 - 500 B. C.	The Age of  Expansion	from Dorian Invasion to Periclean Athens
776 B. C.	The first Olympic games were held.
750 B. C.	Greeks begin to found colonies in the West (Syracuse, Marseilles, And Tarantum)
700 B. C.	Homer writes The Odyssey.
660 B. C.	Greek city-states are governed by tyrants.
592 B. C.	Solon begins to reform the Athenian political system.
550 B. C.	Peisistratus seize power in Athens.
510 B. C.	End of tyranny. Cleisthenes introduces political reforms that lead to the birth of democracy in Athens.
500s B. C.	Philosophy is born.
500 B. C.	Athens develops the world's first democracy.
500 - 336 B. C.	Classical Age	from the Golden Age of Athens to Philip of Macedonia's victory at Chaeronea
499 B. C.	Conflicts with the Persian Empire begin.
90 B. C.	Athenian victory over the Persians at Marathon.
480 B. C.	Persians destroy the Athenian Acropolis.
479 B. C.	Persians are defeated at Battle of Plataea.
461 -431 B. C.	It is the year of Greece's greatest playwrights.
454 B. C.	Athens dominates the Greek city-states.
447 - 405 B. C.	Athenians built the Parthenon and other great temples.
448 B. C.	Pericles is elected commander of the Athenian army.
431 - 404 B. C.	Thucydides records the Peloponnesian War.
404 B. C.	Spartan victory over Athens
400s B. C.	Hippocrates writes a pledge about the duty of doctors.
399 B. C.	Socrates is condemned to death.
356 B. C.	Philip II becomes king of Macedonia.
338 - 39 B. C.	Hellenistic Age	through Alexander's conquests until the last Greek kingdom was overthrown by Rome
338 B. C.	Philip II defeats the Hellenic League at the Battle of Chaeronea.
336 B. C.	Philip II is assassinated - Alexander succeeds him to the throne.
332 B. C.	Alexander dies.
321 B. C.	Alexander's generals divide the empire between them
272 B. C.	Romans sack Tarantum
200s B. C.	Astronomer Aristarchus states the Earth revolves around the sun.
197 B. C.	Romans defeat the Macedonians.
146 B. C.	Romans take Corinth and impose Roman rule on Greece and Macedonia.
86 B. C.	Sulla and the Romans sack Athens.
31 B. C.	Battle of Actium. Cleopatra is defeated and Rome wins Egypt.