ÿþ<html> <head> <title>WHKMLA : Timelines - Pre-Classical Greece </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2006 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Historical Dictionary </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../whchapters.html"> <img src = "../timelines.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../biographies/wh/biopreclas.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Biographies </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on May 30th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline Pre-Classical Greece </B></font> <BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/timelines/wh/tlpreclas.html </i></font> </B></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "150"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 2800-2000 <BR> 2600-1900 <BR> c. 2180 <BR> 2000-1500 <BR> 1900-1700 <BR> c. 1750 <BR> c. 1700 <BR> 1700-1380 <BR> c. 1650 <BR> c. 1550 <BR> 1500 - 1100 <BR> c. 1450 <BR> c. 1420 <BR> c. 1400 <BR> 1380-1100 <BR> c. 1350 <BR> c. 1220 <BR> c. 1200 <BR> c. 1200 <BR> c. 1200 <BR> c. 1150 <BR> c. 1100 <BR> 1100-1000 <BR> c. 950 <BR> <BR> c.750 B.C. <BR> 1841 A.D. <BR> 1871 A.D. <BR> 1876 A.D. <BR> 1900 A.D. <BR> 1952 A.D. <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "560"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Mainland Greece : Early Helladic Period <BR> Crete : Pre-Palace Period <BR> Troy : Great fire; "Priamos' Treasure" <BR> Mainland Greece : Middle Helladic Period <BR> Crete : First Palace Period <BR> Crete : oldest Linear A tablets <BR> Crete : palaces destroyed by a disaster, possibly earthquakes <BR> Crete : Second Palace Period <BR> Volcanic eruption at Santorin / Thera, Tsunami <BR> begin of Mycenaean (Late Helladic) Period <BR> Late Helladic Period <BR> Volcanic eruption at Santorin / Thera <BR> Mycenaean conquest of Crete <BR> Crete : oldest Linear B tablets <BR> Crete : Post-Palace Period <BR> Mycenae : man construction period <BR> Sack of Troy <BR> Egypt : invasions of the Sea Peoples; fought off <BR> Palestine : arrival of the Philistines, warrior people from overseas <BR> destruction of the Hittite Empire <BR> Crete : youngest Linear B tablets <BR> mainland Greece : arrival of the Dorians <BR> Crete : Sub-Minoan Period <BR> Troy abandoned <BR> <BR> Iliad and Oddyssey codified, in (alphabetic) Greek <BR> K. Pittakis cleared the Lion's Gate in Mycenae of rubble <BR> Heinrich Schliemann began excavation of Troy <BR> Heinrich Schliemann began excavation of Mycenae <BR> Sir Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace at Knossos, Crete <BR> Michael Ventris, John Chadwick deciphered Linear B <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "700"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Note : most of the dates given above are estimates. For the destruction of Troy, as reported in the Iliad, for instance, dates given range from c.1250 B.C. to 1184 B.C. As the data listed above were compiled from numerous sources, it can not be excluded that the volcanic eruptions at Santorin, listed for c. 1650 and c. 1450, refer to one and the same event; at least none of the sources consulted here listed two eruptions. <BR> Attempts to differentiate periods within a civilization (Early, Middle, Late Helladic, for instance), equally differ from source to source / scholar to scholar. <BR><BR> ONLINE REFERENCES : <BR> Timeline of Troy, from <A HREF = "http://www.beloit.edu/~classics/Trojan War Site/Web Site/Archaeology Pages/Troy_Timeline.htm">Trojan War Site</A> at Beloit College <BR> Timeline of Aegean Political History, from <A HREF = "http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/timeline.html">Ancient Greek Civilization</A> <BR> Timeline of Ancient Greece, from <A HREF = "http://www.yasou.org/ancient/dates.html">Yasou</A>; from <A HREF = "http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/greeks.html">scaruffi</A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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