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Cycladic Civilization Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

Explore the fascinating history of the Cycladic Civilization through this engaging timeline game!

  • Learn about the early settlement of the Cyclades islands
  • Discover the development of art and culture in the Cycladic Civilization
  • Uncover the decline of the Cycladic Civilization and its eventual disappearance (if applicable)

Game Details: a timeline game where you place events in their correct chronological order

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  • 4th millennium BCE: Neolithic settlement on Cycladic islands
  • 3200-2000 BCE: Development of early Cycladic culture
  • 3rd millennium BCE: Introduction of metalworking in the Cyclades
  • 2700-2000 BCE: Flourishing of Cycladic civilization
  • 2000-1500 BCE: Trade networks established with Minoan civilization on Crete
  • 2000-1100 BCE: Decline of Cycladic civilization
  • 1600-1100 BCE: Mycenaean influence on the Cyclades
  • ca. 1600 BCE: Destruction of Minoan civilization by volcanic eruption on Thera (Santorini)
  • ca. 1100 BCE: Arrival of Dorians in the Cyclades
  • 8th century BCE: Establishment of the Archaic period in the Cyclades
  • 7th century BCE: Colonization of the Cyclades by Ionian Greeks
  • 5th century BCE: Cycladic islands become part of the Delian League under Athens
  • 480-479 BCE: Persian invasion of the Cyclades during the Greco-Persian Wars
  • 431-404 BCE: Peloponnesian War impacts the Cyclades
  • 323 BCE: Cyclades come under Macedonian control after the death of Alexander the Great
  • 146 BCE: Roman conquest of the Cyclades
  • 4th-12th century CE: Byzantine rule over the Cyclades
  • 13th-16th century CE: Venetian rule over the Cyclades
  • 16th-19th century CE: Ottoman rule over the Cyclades
  • 1821-1832 CE: Cyclades become part of modern Greece after the Greek War of Independence

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