- Crete
- 2600 to 1100 BC
- First high civilisation in Europe
- Mainland Greece
- 1600 - 1100 BC
- Influcenced by the Minoan culture
- Also known as Homeric Age
- 1100 - 900 BC
- 800 - 480 BC (second Persian invasion of Greece)
- Also known as Hellenic Period
- 480 - 323 BC (death of Alexander the Great)
- 323 - 31 BC (rise of the Roman Empire in the Battle of Actium)