Ancient Greece Post Part Two

Greek Temple of Zeus

Ancient Greece had four groups of Greeks that lived in Greek lands, the Ionians, the Dorians, the Aeolians, the Arcadians and the Northwest Greeks who were related to the Dorians. Ancient Greece did not have enough farmland to create collective farming or sustain a high population. The plains that Greece did have include hard to grow places. Greece had many mountains and rugged hills that made Greece hard to unify and communicate with other parts of Greece. Greece was a serious of independent city states that their people were also highly independent, and the lack of quality land caused them to take to the Mediterranean Sea to colonize other cities.

There was Six Eras in the Ancient Greece period spanning just under 3 thousand years. The periods in order go from Bronze Age, Dark Age, Archaic Period, Classical Period, Late Classical Period, and the Hellenistic Age. The Bronze age went from 3000-1100 and included the Trojan War which did happen, but historians aren’t sure exactly what happened in the war. The Dark Age went from 1100-800 which includes King David of Jerusalem and the loss of writing. The next period is the Archaic Period from 800-550, the first Olympic games start here, the colonization period of Greece and the Persian Conquest of Asia Minor. The Classical Period goes from 500-400 and includes the Persian Wars, and Peloponnesian Wars. Next is the Late Classical period from 400-330 where there were high amounts of wars between Greek alliances, and the reign of Alexander the Great. Next is the Hellenistic Age from 330-30BC which included Macedonia ruled by the Antigonids. War between rival leagues happened often, Macedonia became a Roman Province and finally Athens sacked by Sulla.