GREEK CHRONOLOGY

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3000-2000 B.C.	Early Helladic Period
2000 -1600	Middle Helladic Period
1600-1200	Late Helladic Period
1100-900 c. 1000	Dark Age building, burial at Lefkandi on Euboea
900-700 c. 775	Geometric Period writing begins again temple at Thermon; bronze statuettes vase-painting with geometric designs; figures from c. 750 B.C.
700-480   600-490	Archaic Period beginning of Doric, Ionic orders in architecture development of kouros, kore sculptures Attic pottery evolves to black figure, c. 520 red figure
480-450 c. 460	Early Classical Period transition in sculpture to Classical types temple of Zeus at Olympia
450-430 449-432	High Classical Period Parthenon
430-323 323	Late Classical Period sculptors Praxiteles, Skopas, Lysippos death of Alexander the Great
323-146 146	Hellenistic Period Rome conquers Corinth, takes over Greece