Saul’s intro to the history of Greece

Saul’s high-level summary timeline of Ancient Greece might provide some context as we hop back and forth through centuries and millennia in our blogposts, with pictures of ancient piles of stones or columns. 

To begin with, here’s a fun 18-minute synopsis of the history of Ancient Greece:

This summary of early civilization shows where Greek history sits in relation to the development of human civilisation.

World History:

• Stone Age, Palaeolithic period: 2,500,000-10,000 BCE
• 10,000 BCE: Development of agriculture and the start of farming in the Middle East
• Stone Age, Mesolithic period: 10000-8000 BCE
• 8,500 BCE: Cultivation of cereal crops (wheat & barley) and the domestication of animals (sheep & goats) in the Middle East
• Stone Age, Neolithic period: 8000-3300 BCE
• 6,000 BCE: Metal-working; copper first used for tools and ornaments. Gold soon followed, mainly for ornaments, and demand for metal ores then stimulated trade
• 3,500 BCE: Sumer in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) develops as the first known complex civilization, the Sumerians. In these cities, the earliest known form of writing, cuneiform script, appears around 3,000 BCE
• Bronze Age: 3300-1200 BCE
• 3,100 BCE: Egypt emerges as a civilization, Egypt having been home to agricultural settlements as early as 5,500 BCE
• 2,000 BCE: First Minoan palaces built in Crete
• Iron Age: 1200-500 BCE

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