Greeks: Key dates Flashcards
1
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Broze Age/Mycenaean period, writing in Linear B
A
c. 1400 - 1200BC
2
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Dark ages
A
c. 1200 - 800BC
3
Q
Adoption of alphabet
A
c. 800BC
4
Q
Composition of Iliad
A
650 BC?
5
Q
Persian wars
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490 - 479BC
6
Q
Main flowering of Greek art and literature
A
480 - 338BC
7
Q
Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II of Macedon conquers Greece
A
338BC
8
Q
Reign of Alexander the Great
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336 - 323BC
9
Q
Foundation of Library at Alexandria
A
285 BC
10
Q
Roman conquest of Greece
A
c. 146BC
11
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Roman conquest of (Ptolemaic) Egypt
A
31BC
12
Q
Constantine makes Byzantium (Constantinople) the second capital of the Roman empire
A
220 AD
13
Q
Byzantium empire
A
c. 600 - 1453 AD
