Sources: HISTORY'S TIMELINE edited by Fay Franklin.
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2200-1500 BC Minoan Civilization

1600-1200 Mycenaean Age
Trojan Wars Myths

c. 1100 Greeks colonization cost of Asia Minor

776 First Olympic Games

750-700 Athens unites w/ other towns of Attica
Greek Alphabet Created
Homer writes ILIAD & ODYSSEY

621 Draco writes first code of laws

594 Solon lays the foundation of Athenian democracy

546-510 Rule of tyrants in Athens

534 First Tragedy performed at Dionysian festival in Athens

508 Cleisthenes introduces democratic reforms

490 Battle of Marathon begins the Persian Wars

487 First comedy at Dionysian

460 Birth of Hippocrates

447 Work on Parthenon begins

445-426 Herodotus, "the father of history," writes his nine-volument HISTORIES

434-404 Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta

429 Death of Pericles

399 Trial and Death of Socrates

387 Plato founds the Academy in Athens

336 Alexander the Great becomes king of Macedonia

322 Macedonians end democracy in Athens

146 BC Rome completes its conquest of Macedonia and Greece