DIFFERENT BRAINS: ALL ABOUT NEURODIVERSITY
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c.7000 BCE Early settlers begin farming in Greece.
3200-2300 BCE Cycladic culture on the Aegean islands (east of mainland Greece). Stone figurines and vases – many of such precise dimensions it’s likely their design involved the use of a compass.
3000-2000 BCE Early Bronze Age
Metal tools and settlements mostly on low plains or hills close to water.
3000-2000 BCE Minoan pre‑palatial period on Crete.
Large houses with first tiled roofs appear for local rulers. Minoan styles of pottery and jewellery appear.
1900-1700 BCE Minoan protopalatial (old palace) period. Linear A writing (still undeciphered) chiefly on the island of Crete. Imaginative and varied pottery.
‘Snake goddess’ religion.
1900-1600 BCE Minoan settlement of Akrotiri on island of Thera (modern-day Santorini). Minoan old palace period destroyed by earthquakes.
1700-1400 BCE Minoan neopalatial (new palace) period. Frescos (wall paintings) of processions, animals and bull-leaping.
Flamboyant palaces: Knossos may be the Labyrinth of the mythical Minotaur.
Lively Kamares Ware pottery produced.
Huge pithoi (storage jars around the size of an adult human!) hold palace-controlled supplies such as olive oil, wine and vegetables.
Minoan culture spreads to islands.
1600 BCE Volcanic island of Thera erupts, destroying Akrotiri.
1375 BCE Minoan culture destroyed. Mycenaeans rule Crete.
1600-1170 BCE Mycenaean culture spreads across the Aegean Sea.
Mycenaean warriors rule from palaces.
Huge-stoned Cyclopean walls surround Mycenaean citadels. Special ‘shaft’ graves and chamber tombs rich in grave goods such as gold and weapons created for kings. The syllabic Linear B writing, the first written records of Greek language.
Mycenaean gods include many of the Greek pantheon of gods.
1200 BCE The carved Lion Gate put up at Mycenae.
1200 BCE The Fall of Troy (Agamemnon, king of the Mycenaeans).
Cities abandoned, Linear B ceases to be used and art becomes simpler.
Historians and archaeologists still have no single explanation as to why this is.
900-700 BCE Geometric Greece. Art and culture returns. Huge pottery vases were decorated with geometric shapes, processions and animals.
800s BCE Sanctuaries to major gods are set up around the Greek world.
750-600 BCE Greek settlements spread around the Mediterranean, spreading Greek language, gods and art.
700s BCE Poleis (independent city states) develop.
776 BCE First Olympic Games held in honour of the god Zeus.
750 BCE Greek alphabet enables Homer’s epic poems the Iliad and Odyssey to be written.
Large stone statues with ‘Archaic smile’ put up at graves.
650 BCE Rise of Greek tyrants.
600s BCE First coins invented in Greek Lydia (in modern Turkey).
600 BCE Sappho writes love poetry.
585 BCE Thales rightly predicts a solar eclipse: philosophers begin discussing how the universe is made.
500s BCE Greek poleis build stone temples.
From 500s Black figure and then red figure vases made in Athens.
508 BCE Cleisthenes introduces democracy to Athens (for adult male citizens).
490 BCE Athens leads the Greeks’ defeat of the invading Persians in Battle of Marathon.
480 BCE Greeks’ final defeat of Persians in the Battle of Salamis.
Impressive stone temples built: 447 BCE Parthenon.
Athenians write theatrical plays (tragedy and comedy), history and philosophy.
470-429 BCE Pericles leads Athens, giving more power to the people.
431-404 BCE Peloponnesian War: Athens v Sparta and most of Greece.
399 BCE Philosopher Socrates is killed.
Alexander the Great’s phalanx army spreads his empire from Greece to India and Egypt.
Greek culture spreads with his empire.
323 BCE Alexander dies of a fever, aged only 32.
323 BCE Hellenistic period begins.
323 BCE Alexander’s empire divides into kingdoms.
146 BCE Romans conquer Greece.
Rome destroys the city of Corinth.
Greece becomes a Roman province.
*Archaeologists continue to debate the dates of some of the earlier events in ancient Greece. The dates given here reflect experts’ current opinion about when things happened, but other sources may differ.
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Words: Gillian Hovell. Illustration: Jasmine Floyd
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