2000 BC: The musical instrument the Lyre was invented in Crete. ~1700 BC: Linear A is invented and it is the system of writing in Minoan civilizations

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1 Ian Insley and Jordan Rodwell Assignment #5 10/22/2018 Question #1: Ancient Greece Timeline 3000 BC : Bronze Age begins in the Aegean Islands 2900 BC : Bronze Age begins in Crete Minoan Period begins (2700 BC): 2200 BC: Minoan civilization flourishing in Crete 2000 BC: Minoan hieroglyphic script is invented 2000 BC: Pottery wheel introduced in Crete 2000 BC: The musical instrument the Lyre was invented in Crete 1900 BC: Sphinxes are represented in Minoan pottery design 1900 BC: Aqueducts are constructed in Crete ~1700 BC: Linear A is invented and it is the system of writing in Minoan civilizations 1700 BC: Palace of Knossos is being built Mycenaean Period Begins (1600 BC): 1600 BC : Shaft graves (Tholos) were the burial method for the Elite 1550 BC : Gold death makes are made in Mycenae 1450 BC: Eruption and Earthquake ends the Minoan Period 1450 BC: The writing system Linear B is developed off of the basis of Linear A 1300 BC: Creation of the Clyptian stone bridge begins 1300 BC: Iron Age begins

2 1200 BC: Trojan War begins between the Mycenaeans and the Trojans 1100 BC: End of the Mycenaean Era Dark Ages Begin (1100 BC): 1050 BC: Bronze age comes to an end 900 BC: Population increase led to Greek city-states sending out expeditions that established colonies 850 BC : Greek alphabet is invented 800 BC: Homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey Archaic Era Begins (800 BC): 776 BC : First recording of the Olympics 750 BC: Geometric Pottery created 625 BC: Thales, Greek mathematician and founder of geometry is born in Miletos 621 BC: Draco issues Draconian code making nearly every offense a capital crime 600 BC: Sundial put in use 600 BC: Coin used for currency was discovered 585 BC: Thales predicts a solar eclipse 569 BC: Pythagoras the Greek mathematician is born in Samos 530 BC: Pythagoras discovered the dependence of musical intervals on the arithmetical ratios of the lengths of string at the same tension 500 BC: The Greco-Persian Wars begin 485 BC: Herodotus, the Ancient Greece historian is born

3 480 BC: Second Persian invasion in Greece causing the fall of the Archaic Era Classical Era begins ( BC): 475 BC: Pythagoras dies 470 BC: Socrates the Greek Philosopher is born 461 BC: The first Peloponnesian wars begin 465 BC: Hippasus, the Pythagorean Philosopher writes of a sphere of 12 pentagons 460 BC: The Golden Era in Athens begins 450 BC: Empedocles, the Philosopher developed his theory of the four classical elements that could explain the origins of everything which were fire, earth, air, and water 449 BC: The construction for the Parthenon in Athens begins 449 BC: Sophocles, the famous play writer produces the tragedy Ajax 446 BC: A thirty-year peace treaty is agreed between Athens and Sparta which ends the first Peloponnesian War 431 BC: The Greek historian Thucydides begins writing the "History of the Peloponnesian War" which is a recording of events in the war which lasts from BC 430 BC: A plague begins in Athens 427 BC: Plato the Greek Philosopher was born 425 BC: Herodotus published The Histories which are a long account of the Greco-Persian Wars 425 BC: Theodorus showed that certain square roots are irrational 403 BC: Democracy is found in Athens 399 BC: Socrates was was charged with impiety and he was found guilty and executed

4 399 BC: Catapult was invented and used in war 384 BC: Aristotle, the Greek Philosopher and Scientist was born 380 BC: Plato founded the Academy in Athens and wrote the Republic 356 BC: The future King Alexander the Great is born and is taught by Aristotle 335 BC: Aristotle founded the Lyceum in Athens BC: Alexander s empire now stretches from Greece to modern day Pakistan, covering Persia, Egypt and India 323 BC: Alexander the Great dies from a fever in Mesopotamia, leading to the end of the Classical Era The Hellenistic Era Begins (323 BC): 322 BC: Aristotle, the author of Metaphysics and other pieces dies 310 BC: Aristarchus, the Greek Astronomer and Mathematician was born. He proposed that the it was a Heliocentric Solar System 300 BC: Euclid, the Greek Mathematician wrote the Elements that was a math book that included proofs, shapes/proportions, number theory, and geometry 288 BC: The Library at Alexandria is built and the home of the largest research institution for years 260 BC: Archimedes developed his the Archimedes Principle that says a body immersed in fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. He also calculated the value of pi 192 BC: Hipparchus, the famous Astronomer and Mathematician was born. He is considered the father of Trigonometry.

5 146 BC: The Romans fully take over Greece ending the Hellenistic Era 129 BC: Hipparchus created a star map consisting of 850 visible stars 65 BC: The first account of the Antikythera device 48 BC: The Library at Alexandria is burned down 45 BC: Sosigenes of Alexandria designed a calendar of days 50 AD: Pedanius Dioscorides published recommendations as to the medicinal use of specific plant extracts 110 BC: Menelaus of Alexandria writes Sphaerica which deals with spherical triangles and their application to astronomy 170 AD: Pausanias, a Greek traveler and geographer writes his Description of Greece which sketches the history and topography of important cities and their surroundings

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