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Hellenic History Timeline




1. Prehistoric Greece

1.1 Neolithic to Bronze Age (7000–1100 BC)
       1.1.1  Cycladic and Minoan civilization
       1.1.2  Mycenaean civilization


2. Ancient Greece (1100–146 BC)

2.1 Iron Age (1100–800 BC)
2.2 Archaic Greece
2.3 Classical Greece
       2.3.1Persian Wars
       2.3.2Peloponnesian War
2.4 Hellenistic Greece

3. Roman Greece (146 BC– AD 324)


4. Middle Ages

4.1 Byzantine rule (324–AD 1204)
4.2 Economic prosperity
4.3 Artistic revival
4.4 The Fourth Crusade (1204)
4.5 From partial Byzantine restoration to 1453

5. Venetian and Ottoman rule (15th century–AD 1821)


6. Modern Greek nation state (1821–present)

6.1 Modernization
6.2 Balkan Wars
6.3 World War I and Greco-Turkish War
6.4 Interwar to World War II
6.5 Greek Civil War (1944–1949)
6.6 Postwar development and integration in Western Bloc (1949–1967)
6.7 Military dictatorship (1967–1974)
6.8 Third Hellenic Republic (1974–present)
6.9 Greece in the Eurozone


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