Timeline
Wars
Eras
Art/Architecture
Politics
100

Who came first:Sumer or Egypt?

What was Sumer? 
100

The war between Athens, Sparta and Corinth

What was The Peloponnesian War? 

100

Homer writes The Iliad & Odyssey; first Olympics (776 BC); rise of city-states (polis); development of the alphabet; Solon's reforms in Athens; birth of democracy (508 BC).

What is Archaic Greece?

100

___________________________

techniques involved painting black 

figures on a red clay background or 

vice versa.

What is Black and Red figure pottery? 

100

The Greek term for city-state

What is a polis?

200

Who came first: Babylon or Persia?

What was Babylon? 

200

The Persian War resulted in the ___________ League. 

What is the Delian League? 

200
  • Persian Wars (490-479 BC): Greeks defeat Persians at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea, preserving independence.
  • Golden Age of Athens: Pericles' rule, Parthenon built; rise of philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle).
  • Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC): Sparta defeats Athens, ending Athenian dominance.

What is the Classical Era?

200

The Greeks invented the pose as an alternative to the stiff static poses of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

What is Contrapposto? 

200

Four main social classes in Greece: 

What are Citizens, Metics, Women, and Slaves?

300

Who came first: Minoans or Myceneans? 

Who were the Minoans?

300
The three major battles from the Persian War

The Battle of: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis

300
  • Rise of Macedon: Philip II conquers Greece; Alexander the Great conquers Persian Empire (334-323 BC), spreading Greek culture 
  • Roman Conquest: Macedon defeated by Rome; Greece becomes Roman province (146 BC). 

What is the Hellenistic Era? 

300

Statue of man competing in an Olympic event

What is the Discobulus? 
300

______________ Citizens participate 

directly in decision-making.

What is democracy?

400

Who came first:Peloponnesian War or Persian War? 

What is the Persian War? 

400

The Greek city that Alexander the Great destroyed in order to get Greece to submit to his rule

What is Thebes? 

400

 A period of decline after the Bronze Age collapse, marked by fewer records.

What is the Greek Dark Ages? 

400

Three Orders of Columns

What is Doric, Ionic and Corinthian? 

400

Governed by a mixed system of dual 

kingship, a council of elders (Gerousia), 

and an assembly of citizens.

Who was Sparta?

500

Who came first:empire or city-state? 

What is a city-state?

500

The war fought by Narmer which unified ___________, and ___________ _____________. 

What is Upper and Lower Egypt?

500

Includes advanced cultures like the Minoans (Crete) and Mycenaeans (mainland Greece)

What is the Bronze Age/ Era? 
500

Two buildings that incorporate Hellenistic architecture

What is the Pharos of Alexandria and the Temple of Zeus?

500

Alexander’s conquests spread Greek culture, language, and idea, a process known as Hellenization.

What is hellenization?

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