Ancient Greece Timeline Ordering

To explore some of the key events during the ancient Greek period.

Cut out the timeline pictures and order them chronologically onto the timeline. Use the empty boxes provided to fit them all in, thinking
carefully about the order along the timeline.

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 Ancient Greece Timeline Ordering

508 BC 338 BC 650 BC 776 BC 460 BC 500 BC 336 BC 432 BC

Around this Hippocrates Alexander the

Male citizens King Philip II date, the tyrant, ‘Father of Around this date, Great takes The Parthenon
of Athens are takes control Kypselos, takes First Olympic Medicine’ is the Classical control is finished
allowed to vote. of Greece. over Corinth. Games are held. born in Kos. period starts. of Greece. in Athens.
472 BC 146 BC 700 BC

Homer writes the

Greek theatre Greece falls ‘Odyssey’ and
becomes popular under the ‘Iliad’ poems
in Athens. Roman Empire. around this date.

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776 BC 650 BC 500 BC 460 BC 338 BC 146 BC

Around this Hippocrates

date, the tyrant, Around this date, ‘Father of King Philip II Greece falls
First Olympic Kypselos, takes the Classical Medicine’ is takes control under the
Games are held. over Corinth. period starts. born in Kos. of Greece. Roman Empire.

700 BC 508 BC 472 BC 432 BC 336 BC

Homer writes the Alexander the

‘Odyssey’ and Male citizens Greek theatre The Parthenon Great takes
‘Iliad’ poems of Athens are becomes popular is finished control
around this date. allowed to vote. in Athens. in Athens. of Greece.

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