HIST 2850 Midterm: Ancient Greece Timeline

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2850
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

1200 invaders loot and burn the palace centers. Social ranking emerges; villages and districts ruled by hereditary chiefs. 1600 mycenae and other sites become power centers; small kingdoms emerge. 1050 small chiefdoms established; migrations of mainland greeks to. 1000 dorian greeks settled in the mainland and the islands. 900 population increases; new establishment; trade and manufacture expand. Widespread use of bronze and other metals in the aegean. Crete; mainland contacts with crete and the near east. 800 greeks develop an alphabet; earliest temples built. 632 cylon fails in attempt at tyranny in. 600 beginnings of science and philosophy (the presocratics ) 530 athenian red-figure technique; 5th-century rationalists and scientists; hippocrates; advances in medicine; increase in literacy; 470-456 construction of the temple of zeus at. 411-410 oligarchic coup in athens; establishment of council of 400; regime of the 5,000. Fourth century: rise of class of rhetores at. Serious population decline in sparta; impoverished class of.