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