| 2000 | - | 1380 | Minoan Civilization (Crete) |
| 1600 | - | 1200 | Mycenean Civilization |
| 1200 | - | 700 | Greek Dark Ages |
| 700 | - | 479 | Archaic Greece |
| 480 | - | 338 | Classical Greece |
| post | - | 338 | Hellenistic Greece |
ca. 1500 eruption of Thera (Knossos destroyed, rebuilt)
ca. 1380 Mycenean conquest of Crete, eastern Mediterranean
ca. 1200 Trojan War
ca. 750 Homer
480-79 Persian invasion
Geographic factors
Archaic Greece (ca. 750 B.C. - 480/479)
Polis
Agriculture (George - a farmer)
yeoman farmer - private ownership of land
orchard - grafting
slavery
year-round work
autarkeia - self-sufficiency
Homer, Odyssey, 24.225-433
Laertes
Dolios
Idealization
Agriculture (George - a farmer)
yeoman farmer - private ownership of land
orchard - grafting
slavery
year-round work
Warfare
bronze age - cavalry, chariot
archaic, classical Greece = infantry
hoplites < hoplon (a shield) = "heavily armed infantry"
phalanx
casualties