HistoricalPeriodsGreece


Historical Periods in Greece


(dates BCE until Roman Period)


 




Paleolithic/Mesolithic ca. 70,000-6000


Neolithic ca. 6,000-3,000 (Sesklo/Dimini)


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Bronze Age ca. 3,000-1,100. (ca. 2,000 “Greeks” arrive
in Greece)


Cycladic. Islands (ca. 3000-2000)


Minoan. Crete (ca. 1900-1400)


Helladic. Mainland (also called Mycenaean; ca.1700-1100)


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Dark Ages ca. 1,100- 800 (also called Iron Age)


Geometric ca. 800-700


Orientalizing ca. 700-600


Archaic ca. 600- 490 (Battle of Marathon)


Classical 490- 323 (Death of Alexander)


(Early/High Classical: 480-400)


(Late Classical: 400-323)


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Hellenistic 322-31 (Battle of Actium)


Roman 30 BCE – 330 CE (Constantinople becomes the imperial residence)


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Byzantine 330-1204 CE (4th Crusade)


Frankish/Byzantine 1204-1453 CE (Turkish Conquest)


Venetians in Greece:


1. 1204-1669 (Fall of Crete)


2. 1687 (Parthenon bombed)-1715 (Turks re-take Peloponnesus)


Turkish 1453-1827 CE


Modern Independent Greece 1827- present


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