The Greek Dark Ages Timeline Game
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Put the following events in chronological order.
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Put the events in order from earliest to latest.
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Take the Quiz - Challenge your recall of the key facts and figures.
Temporal Tangle
Can you place the key events in the correct order?
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Reconstruct the key facts from this lesson.
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About This Challenge
The Greek Dark Ages were a period of decline and instability following the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization. To better understand this tumultuous time in ancient Greek history, one can explore it through the lens of a timeline game.
- Players must place events in their correct chronological order
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- c. 1200 BCE: Destruction of Mycenaean palaces
- c. 1100 BCE: Beginning of the Greek Dark Ages
- c. 1100-800 BCE: Decline of trade and writing in Greece
- c. 1100-800 BCE: Rise of the Dorians and other Greek tribes
- c. 800 BCE: Development of the Greek alphabet
- c. 800-700 BCE: Emergence of the polis (city-state)
- c. 750-550 BCE: Colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions
- c. 750-550 BCE: Expansion of Greek trade and influence
- 776 BCE: First Olympic Games in Olympia
- c. 750-700 BCE: Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey
- c. 621 BCE: First written laws in Greece by Draco
- c. 600-500 BCE: Rise of tyrants in various Greek city-states
- 499-449 BCE: Persian Wars between Greece and Persia
- 5th century BCE: Golden Age of Athens under Pericles
- 431-404 BCE: Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta
- 323 BCE: Death of Alexander the Great
- c. 800 BCE: End of the Greek Dark Ages