Time Periods in the Greek World to LEARN:

Early / Middle Bronze Age:                   3000--1600 BCE
                                                           (linear B [non-alphabetic script] used)

Mycenaean Age (Late Bronze Age):      1600--1200 BCE {large monarchies}
                                                           (linear B disappears; no writing)

Dark Age                                            1200--800 BCE {small monarchies}
                                                           (ëHomerí composed orally during this period; first alphabets may appear at end of Dark Age)

Archaic Period                                        800--480 BCE {monarchy; aristocracy}
                                                            (ëHomerí written down ca. 800)

Classical Period                                     480--323 BCE {Athenian democracy}
                                                            (Birth of tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, oratory)

Hellenistic Period                                 323--31 / 32 BCE {large monarchies}
                                                            (first libraries {Alexandria, Pergamon}, rise of early literary culture and criticism)
 

Other Key Terms to LEARN (find in Powell):

Boeotia
Attica
Euboia
Aegean Sea
Cyclades
Ionia
Indo-Europeans
Achaeans
Linear B
Dorians
Ionia
Polis
Peloponnesian War
Pederasty
Hoplites
Parthenos
Miasma
Taboo
Roman Period