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Later in Rome

A brief timeline, showing how Greece and Rome fit together.

The periods taught in the course are in red.


BCE

Greece

Italy

1500

Mycenaean civilisation

 

 

 

 

1400

Bronze Age

 

 

 

 

1300

 

 

 

 

 

1200

Collapse of Mycenaean palaces

 

 

(? Trojan War ?)

 

1100

 

 

 

 

 

1000

 

 

 

Dark Ages

 

900

 

 

 

 

 

800

 

 

 

 

Rome supposedly founded

700

Homer

 

 

 

 

600

 

 

 

 

Roman Republic formed

500

Persian Wars

 

 

Rise of Athens

 

400

Peloponnesian War

 

 

Alexander

 

300

 

 

 

 

Wars with Carthage; Hannibal

200

 

 

 

 

Gracchi brothers

100

 

 

 

 

civil wars

-

 

Empire;  Augustus

 

 

 

100

 

Trajan

 

 

 

200

 

 

 

 

 

300

 

Constantine

 

 

 

400

 

 

 

 

“Fall” of Rome

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