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    The document outlines important periods in Greek history from the Neolithic period through the 21st century. It describes the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean cultures, Classical period of Athens and Alexander the Great, Roman domination, establishment of Constantinople under Constantine, and fall of Byzantium to the Ottomans in 1453. It then discusses the Greek War of Independence in the early 19th century, modernization reforms, and Greece's role in the 20th century wars and its accession to the EU and NATO.

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    The document outlines important periods in Greek history from the Neolithic period through the 21st century. It describes the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean cultures, Classical period of Athens and Alexander the Great, Roman domination, establishment of Constantinople under Constantine, and fall of Byzantium to the Ottomans in 1453. It then discusses the Greek War of Independence in the early 19th century, modernization reforms, and Greece's role in the 20th century wars and its accession to the EU and NATO.

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    Moments of Greek History

    PERIOD OF MIGRATIONS
    Invasion of the Dorian Greeks into mainland Greece Migration of Ionian and other Greeks from the mainland to the Aegean islands and the coast of Asia Minor

    NEOLITHIC PERIOD
    Permanent settlement, agriculture, stock-breeding Settlement at Dimini (Thessaly)

    7,000 - 3,000 B.C.

    3,000 - 1,100 B.C.

    1,100 - 750 B.C.

    BRONZE AGE
    Minoan culture in Crete Cycladic culture in the Aegean islands Mycenean culture in Greece

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    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    Golden Age of Athens - Athens as education of Greece (Thucydides) -Athenian Democracy Pericles 431 B.C. - 404 B.C. The Peloponnesian War between the cities of the Athenian League and Sparta and her allies. Capitulation of Athens and installation of the regime of the Thirty Alexander the Great invades the Persian Empire Creation of the Hellenistic World 323 B.C., Babylon: Sudden death of Alexander the Great.

    750 - 479 B.C.

    479 - 323 B.C.

    323 - 146 B.C.

    HELLENISTIC PERIOD
    The Age of Alexanders Successors Creation of five important kingdoms (Macedonia, Thrace, Asia, Egypt and Cyrene, Asia Minor and Cyprus).

    ARCHAIC PERIOD
    The emergence of the Polis Dominance of Sparta and Athens in mainland Greece Conflict with Persia Greeks defeat at Thermopylae (480 B.C.) Persians defeat at Marathon (490 B.C.), Salamis (480 B.C) and Plataea (479 B.C.)

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    MIDDLE BYZANTINE PERIOD
    Enemy attacks to the border areas Changes in the internal structure of the Empire Iconoclast controversies and restoration of Orthodoxy 1204 A.C.: Fall of Constantinople to the Latin crusaders.

    146 B.C. - 330 A.C.

    324 - 610 A.C.

    610 - 1204 A.C.

    ROMAN PERIOD
    Co-existence of diverse cultural traditions, religions and social structures under the Roman rule.

    EARLY BYZANTINE PERIOD


    324 A.C.: Constantine the Great as sole emperor of the Roman empire 324 A.C.: Constantine formally refounded the city of Byzantium, giving it the name of New Rome 537 A.C.: Consecration of the church of Saint Sophia

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    LATE BYZANTINE PERIOD


    Gradual weakening of the structure of the Byzantine state Reduction of the land 1453 A.C.: Fall of the Byzantine empire to the Ottomans

    18TH CENTURY
    Greek Enlightenment: The awakening of the Greek national consciousness.

    1204 - 1453 A.C.

    1453 - 1821 A.C.

    18th Century

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    Moments of Greek History

    19TH CENTURY
    The Hellenic War of Independence (1821-1827) Destruction of the Ottoman and Egyptian power in the naval battle of Navarino (1827)

    19TH CENTURY
    Count Ioannis Kapodistrias as first governor of the Hellenic State (1827) Reign of King Othon (1832-1862) Granting of Constitution ( September 3rd,1843) Charilaos Trikoupis (1880-1895): modernizing reforms of the Greek administration and public works

    First modern Olympic Games in the reconstructed Panathenaic Stadium in Athens (1896)

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    20TH CENTURY
    The Balkan Wars (1912-1913) The Treaties of Neuilly (1919) and Sevres (1920): a personal triumph for Venizelos and an opportunity for the national unification of Greece The Asia Minor campaign and disaster (1919-1922) Refugees socio-economic integration in the Greek society Venizelos steps in securing good and constructive relations with Kemalist Turkey (1928-1932) The Second World War and the Resistance (1940-1944) The Civil War (1944-1949) Greeces accession to the U.N. Organisation (1945)

    Greeces accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (1952) Greeces Association Agreement with the European Common Market (1961) Nobel Prize in Literature: George Seferis (1963) The coup of colonels and the military junta (1967-1974) The restoration of democracy (1974) Nobel Prize in Literature: Odysseus Elytis (1979) Greeces accession to the European Common Market (1981) Greece as a democratic, developed and stable country

    20TH CENTURY

    21ST CENTURY

    21ST CENTURY
    Greeces accession to the Economic and Monetary Union of the EU (2001) Cyprus accession to the European Union (2004) The Olympic Games in Athens (2004)

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