Dates

Question 1

Mycenaean Period

Answer 1

1600-1200 (?) BCE

Question 2

Rise of Mycenaean civilization

Answer 2

1600 BCE

Question 3

approximate beginning of unknown catastrophe, Mycenaean sites are destroyed and abandoned over the next century, population will have fallen ~75% by 1100.

Answer 3

1200 BCE

Question 4

Possible historical date for the Trojan War.

Answer 4

c. 1200-1180 BCE

Question 5

Collapse of the last Mycenaean kingdoms. Greek Dark Age begins

Answer 5

1100 BCE

Question 6

Dark Age

Answer 6

c. 1100-700/650 BCE

Question 7

Protogeometric Period

Answer 7

1050-900 BCE

Question 8

Lefkandi flourishing, in stark contrast to pretty much all the rest of Greece

Answer 8

1000-750; abandoned by 700 BCE

Question 9

Toumba heroon built; first tomb cults built

Answer 9

950 BCE

Question 10

An extremely approximate date for the founding of Carthage; ironwork appears in west-central Greece

Answer 10

900 BCE

Question 11

Early Geometric Period

Answer 11

900-850 BCE

Question 12

Middle Geometric Period

Answer 12

850-760 BCE

Question 13

Thera founded by Laconian Dorians

Answer 13

750 BCE

Question 14

Possible date for the society depicted in Homer

Answer 14

800 (grain of salt!); 753 BCE

Question 15

First Olympic Games

Answer 15

776 BCE

Question 16

first clearly discernible Greek letters appear

Answer 16

770 BCE

Question 17

Euboea founds Cumae in Italy, start of colonization in Magna Graecia

Answer 17

760 BCE

Question 18

Late Geometric Period

Answer 18

760-700 BCE

Question 19

Mythical date for the founding of Rome

Answer 19

753 BCE

Question 20

explosion of Greek writing

Answer 20

750-700 BCE

Question 21

Zancle founded by Cymian pirates in Sicily

Answer 21

750-25 BCE

Question 22

heroization of city founders begins, evidence of offerings start to appear around Mycenaean tombs

Answer 22

750-700 BCE

Question 23

First Messenian War

Answer 23

743-724 BCE

Question 24

Rhegium founded by Chalcidians at the toe of the Italian boot

Answer 24

743-20 BCE

Question 25

Approximate date for both the Dipylon Inscription and the Nestor Cup

Answer 25

740 BCE

Question 26

Syracuse founded by Corinthians

Answer 26

734-733 BCE

Question 27

Megara Hyblaea founded in Sicily

Answer 27

728 BCE

Question 28

approximate date for Hesiod’s writings

Answer 28

725-700 BCE

Question 29

Sybaris founded by Achaeans in southern Italy

Answer 29

720 BCE

Question 30

A largely mythical date for the largely mythical Lelantine war between Eretria and Chalcis

Answer 30

710-650 (?) BCE

Question 31

Croton founded by Achaeans in southern Italy

Answer 31

709 BCE

Question 32

Tarentum (Taras) supposedly founded by Spartan Parthenioi

Answer 32

706 BCE

Question 33

Archaic Period

Answer 33

700-480 BCE

Question 34

First depictions of Corinthian helmets and hoplite shields in artwork

Answer 34

700 BCE

Question 35

development of Etruscan script from Greek

Answer 35

690 BCE

Question 36

A good approximate date for the introduction of coinage in Lydia; Miletus begins to colonize the Black Sea and Hellespont.

Answer 36

670 BCE

Question 37

Cypselus becomes tyrant in Corinth

Answer 37

657 BCE

Question 38

Second Messenian War

Answer 38

650-640 BCE

Question 39

culmination of the development of hoplite-style warfare.
- earliest date for finds of law fragments in stone and bronze.
- first Greek coins appear.
- rise of Lyric poetry.
- possible date for Lycurgan reforms in Sparta.

Answer 39

650 BCE