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Early Bronze Age (2900 - 2000)
- The period in antiquity that corresponds to the introduction
of metallurgy, notably bronze-working, for making tools,
weapons, and ceremonial objects.
The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean the Bronze
Age civilization that developed (c. 3000-1200 BC)
in the basin of the Aegean Sea, mainly on Crete, the
Cyclades, and the mainland of Greece.
The Early Cycladic Period small island group
(Cyclades) situated in the centre of the Aegean in Greece,
which developed a unique and distinctive civilization
that flourished from around 3200-2000 BC.
The Early Minoan Period: The Settlements - Bronze
Age civilization centering on the island of Crete, that
flourished c. 3000 to 1100 BC. It was named after the
legendary king Minos. Evans divided Minoan civilization
into three periods: Early Minoan (c. 3000-c. 2200 BC),
Middle Minoan (c. 2200-c.1600 BC), and Late Minoan (c.
1600-c. 1100 BC).
Minoan Age (2000 - 1400 BC )
Bronze Age civilization, centring on the island of
Crete. It was named after the legendary king Minos.
It is divided into three periods: the early Minoan
period (c.3000-2200 B.C.), the Middle Minoan period
(c.2200-1500 B.C.) and the Late Minoan period (c.1500-1000
B.C.).
Mycenaean Age (600 - 1100 BC)
Period of high cultural achievement, forming the backdrop
and basis for subsequent myths of the heroes. It was
named for the kingdom of Mycenae and the archaeological
site where fabulous works in gold were unearthed. The
Mycenaean Age was cut short by widespread destruction
ushering in the Greek Dark Age.
- Mycenaean Tholos Tombs and Early Mycenaean Settlements
- The Collapse of Mycenaean Palatial Civilization and
the Coming of the Dorians
- Mycenaean Chronology
- The Myceneans
- 1185 Traditional date of Trojan War
The Dark Ages (1100 - 750 BC)
The period between the fall of the Mycenean civilizations
and the readoption of writing in the eighth or
seventh century BC. After the Trojan Wars the Mycenaeans
went through a period of civil war, the country
was weak and a tribe called the Dorians took over.
Some speculate that Dorian invaders from the north
with iron weapons laid waste the Mycenaean culture.
Others look to internal dissent, uprising and rebellion,
or perhaps some combination.
The Greek Dark Ages
A chapter on the history and culture of the Greek
Dark Ages.
The Dorians
One of the three main groups of people of ancient
Greece, the others being the Aeolians and the Ionians,
who invaded from the north in the 12th and 11th
centuries BC.
- Dark Age Greece
- The Dorian invasion
- Iron into general use for weapons and tools
- Greeks begin colonization on Ionian coast
Archaic Period (750 - 500 BC)
The period in which the beginnings of Greek monumental
stone sculpture and other developments in the naturalistic
representation of the human figure are found. During
the Archaic Age the Greeks developed the most widespread
and influential of their new political forms, the
city-state, or polis . Rise of the aristocracies.
Greek colonization of Southern Italy and Sicily
begins.
- Archaic Period
- Early Archaic Period
- The Archaic colonization
- The emergence of the Polis
Classical Period (500-323 BC)
Classical period of ancient Greek history, is
fixed between about 500 B. C., when the Greeks
began to come into conflict with the kingdom of
Persia to the east, and the death of the Macedonian
king and conqueror Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.
In this period Athens reached its greatest political
and cultural heights: the full development of the
democratic system of government under the Athenian
statesman Pericles; the building of the Parthenon
on the Acropolis; the creation of the tragedies
of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides; and the
founding of the philosophical schools of Socrates
and Plato.
- Archaic and Classical Greek History
- Classical Greece
- The History of Hellas
- 431-404 Peloponnesian War
- 359-323 Rise of Macedonian Empire -
- 359 - Philip
II - Macedonian throne 343 - Aristotle tutor to Alexander
- 338
- Philip defeats Athens - supreme power in Greece
- 336
- Philip assassinated/Alexander succeeds
- 335 - Alexander
razes Thebes - extends rule Aristotle founds school
in Athens 331 - Alexander smashes Persia
- 330 - Alexander
moves further into Asia Statues of Aeschylus, Euripides,
and Sophocles erected in Theatre of Dionysus in Athens
- 323
- Alexander dies in Babylon; successors begin to
carve up his empire
Hellenistic Period (323-27 BC)
period between the conquest of the Persian Empire
by Alexander the Great and the establishment
of Roman supremacy, in which Greek culture and
learning were pre-eminent in the Mediterranean
and Asia Minor. It is called Hellenistic (Greek,
Hellas, "Greece")
to distinguish it from the Hellenic
culture of classical Greece.
- Hellenistic Period
- Hellenistic Greece
- Hellenic and Hellenistic Societies
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