Timeline of Ancient History Where Does Troy Fall in All This?


ELSEWHERE There is a great expanse of historywhich


the average person would consider “Ancient.” Throughout our time in school, we tend to study civilizations separately fromone another. For this reason, it is quite possible to leave school with a sense of what each individual civilization did, but without a clear sense of where these cultures and events existed in time relative to one another. For example, howmuch time passed between the building of the pyramids and the founding of Rome? Did King David rule in Judea before or after the irst Olympic games? And where does the Trojan War fall in all of this? Below is a timeline of 30,000 years of history preceding the birth of Jesus. The dates are approximate as many come from archeology and legend rather than solid record.


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1250 BCE THE TROJANWAR Troy destroyed


1200 BCE Decline of MYCENAEN Civilization, the Achaeans of the TrojanWar


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776 BCE First OLYMPIC GAMES


850 - 750 BCE HOMER tells the story of THE ILIAD


753 BCE Legendary Founding of ROME by ROMULUS and REMUS


700 BCE First GREEK ALPHABET developed. The ILIAD written down.


650 BCE SPARTA reorganized as a City-State centered on MILITARY POWER


534 BCE TRAGEDY introduced to the CITY DIONYSIA, the Athenian Festival in honor of Dinoysus


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1500 BCE OLMEC Civilization emerges in Mexico


30,000 BCE CAVE PAINTINGS done in CHAUVET CAVE, France. These are the oldest paintings known toman.


2,550 BCE THE GREAT PYRAMID at GIZA built.


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2070 BCE XIA DYNASTY, the earliest recorded in CHINA, founded


1000 BCE Reign of KING DAVID in JUDEA


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