Background Of Sparta Flashcards
3000-1600BC
Archaic Greece
1600-1200BC
Mycenaean Greece
1200-800BC
Dark Ages
800-600BC
Greek Renaissance
600-323BC
Classical/Hellenic Greece
323-31BC
Hellenistic Greece
First Greek society
Mineans, island of Crete, named after king of Crete, Minos, population 250,000, largest city state, most powerful.
How was Greece settled?
Valleys, mountains, water, encouraged to settle independent communities, city states.
When were the city states united?
Trojan War.
1300BC
Mycenae attacked my Turkey (Asia Minor), Dorian invasion.
Greece Dark Ages
Culture declined, structures and public buildings halted, some skills survived, language preserved.
Greek Renaissance
Optimism and adventure flourished, wrote poems, Olympic Games (776BC).
Classical Greece
Herodotus and Thucydides, democracy, Persian War and Peloponnesian War, importance of individualism.
Athenian society
Never united Greece, culture never changed, trade brought ideas, polis was wealthy.
Greek Polis
Self governing autonomous society.