c. 1184 BCE: The
start of the Trojan War according to Eratosthenes

c. 750 BCE: Archaic period begins

c. 762 BCE: The date historians believe the Iliad is written

c. 600 BCE: Coins become a standard of currency

507 BCE: Democracy is introduced in Athens

499 BCE: The Greco-Persian Wars begin

c. 480 BCE: Classical period starts

432 BCE: The Parthenon is completed

332 BCE:
Alexander the
Great establishes the new capital of Egypt and calls it Alexandria

323 BCE: Hellenistic period begins and the death of Alexander the Great

c. 300 BCE: The
mathematician, Euclid, writes his famous textbook, Elements

146 BCE: Rome defeats Greece at the battle of Corinth