The Ancient History of Greece - 8-9-2026 336

In 3000 BCE, Greece was mostly empty, besides the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete which likely was a Hamitic civilization that came from Egypt from the south. By 2500 BCE, the Cyclades civilization was founded on some islands to the north of Crete. By 2000 BCE, the Minoan civilization began to absorb the Cyclades into their own culture until they were united. By 1500 BCE, some Javanic-Japhetic people came from the east and founded the Mycenean civilization on mainland Greece. By 1400 BCE, the Myceneans conquered the Minoans and established a colony on the eastern Anatolian coast. By 1100 BCE, the Myceneans lost their power and control. What remained was a small city state in Athens. By 1074 AD, the city state of Corinth was founded. Around 1000 BCE, the Greeks founded the city of Ephesus on the western side of Anatolia. By 930 BC, Sparta was founded. In 807 BC, Macedonia was founded. By 776 BC, the Greeks were spread all around the land that the old Myceneans lived. Around 734 BC, the Greeks founded the city of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. In 724 BC, Sparta invaded the western Greek state of Messenia. By 700 BC, the Greeks were so numerous in southern Italy, that the Romans called it Great Greece. In 687 BC, Lydia was founded and conquered the Greek's land in western Anatolia. In 630 BC, the Greeks founded the state of Cyrene in northern Africa. By 600 BC, the Greeks founded the city of Massalia in southern France. In 575 BC, the Greeks founded the city of Emporion in eastern Iberia. In 550 BC, the Greeks also founded Saguntum in eastern Iberia. In 513 BC, the Persian Empire colonized Thrace and over time attempted to invade Greece. In 479 BC, Epirus was founded. In 478 AD, the battle of Mycale ended in a Greek victory against the invading Persians. The state of Thrace was instated, Athens got a huge amount of territory all around the Aegean sea, and Macedonia got to expand all around. In 438 BC, the Greeks founded Bosporus in southern Ukraine. In 404 BC, Athens lost all of its colonies. In 387 BC, the Persian empire conquered all Greek lands on Anatolia. In 358 BC, Macedonia expanded to the northwest. In 356 BC, Macedonia conquered territory in northern Greece. In 353 BC, Macedonia conquered a great chunk of Thessaly. In 349 BC, Macedonia conquered the three peninsulas in northern Greece. In 346 BC, Macedonia conquered a little lower into Greece. In 342 BC, Macedonia conquered southern Thrace. By 334 BC, Macedonia had conquered most of Greece besides Epirus and Sparta. The Persian Empire tried to conquer Greece once again but Macedonia under Alexander the great did not fall. By 333 BC, Greece conquered most of Anatolia. By 332 BC, Greece conquered northern Canaan and Cyprus. By 331 BC, Greece conquered Egypt. By 330 BC, Greece conquered Mesopotamia and Armenia. By 239 BC, Greece had conquered the entire Persian empire and the Empire of Alexander the great was established. In 323 BC, Alexander the great died and his empire was divided between his generals. Greece was once again divided between Greece, Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace, Egypt, and Rhodes. In 283 BC, Macedonia reconquered Greece and Ptolomaic Egypt conquered the western coast of Anatolia. In 286 BC, Macedonia collapsed and was divided between Greece, Epirus, and Thrace. In 280 BC, Thrace was conquered by the Seleucids. In 279 BC, Macedonia and Thrace were back. In 278 BC, Greece was divided between Aetolia, Achaia, Athens, and Sparta. By 271 BC, Rome conquered Great Greece which put Rome and Greece in a bad relation. After the first Punic war, Rome got all of Sicily except for Syracuse, which was a Greek colony. Carthage was out of money, so they decided to colonize Spain which was full of silver mines, and they quickly paid back their debt. Rome saw how fast Carthage was rising, so they said to Carthage, "You stay under the Ebro river and I stay above. Under no circumstances cross it." But, Rome had a Greek ally city state south of the Ebro river called Saguntum. This made Carthage very angry. Rome said that if Carthage invaded Saguntum, then it would mean war. The Saguntese made the genius decision of raiding into Carthage's territory and burning things down. So, Carthage quickly conquered Saguntum. Rome and Carthage ended up at war. While Rome was busy trying to conquer Carthage's homeland in Africa, their main general, Hannibal, was busy trying to cross the Alps and ended up in the Italian peninsula going down and conquering it. This made the Greek state of Macedonia want to join Hannibal's side and so they formed a coalitian against Rome. But, Macedonia could not do anything because Rome stirred up their Greek enemies to fight them for the whole time. In the end, Hannibal's invasion in southern Italy did not end up successful despite all the fear and casualties he brought the Roman empire though the battle of Cannae because Rome's Hannibal, Scipio, cut off his line of support in Spain. Rome ended up victorious. Carthage was reduced to just modern-day northern Tunisia. By 147 BC, Greece was conquered by Rome. For more history of Greece, see the next paragraph. -- Written by Vikenait Productions