ca. 3000–1200 B.C.E. |
Helladic period |
ca. 2000–1100 B.C.E. |
Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations |
ca. 1200–323 B.C.E. |
Hellenic period |
ca. 1100–800 B.C.E. |
Greece’s Dark Age; population declines, trade decreases, writing disappears |
ca. 800–500 B.C.E. |
Archaic age; rise of the polis; Greek colonization of the Mediterranean |
ca. 700–500 B.C.E. |
Sparta and Athens develop distinctive political institutions |
ca. 500–338 B.C.E. |
Classical period; development of drama, philosophy, and major building projects in Athens |
499–404 B.C.E. |
Persian and Peloponnesian wars |
336–324 B.C.E. |
Alexander the Great’s military campaigns |
323–30 B.C.E. |
Hellenistic period |
323–ca. 300 B.C.E. |
Civil wars lead to the establishment of the Ptolemaic, Antigonid, and Seleucid dynasties |
168 B.C.E. |
Roman overthrow of the Antigonid dynasty |
30 B.C.E. |
Roman conquest of Egypt; Ptolemaic dynasty ends |