Greek Periodization

2000 - 1380 Minoan Civilization (Crete)
1600 - 1200 Mycenean Civilization
1200 - 700 Greek Dark Ages
700 - 480 Archaic Greece
480 - 338 Classical Greece
post - 338 Hellenistic Greece
Points of Reference

ca. 1500 eruption of Thera (Knossos destroyed, rebuilt)
ca. 1380 Mycenean conquest of Crete, eastern Mediterranean
ca. 1250 Trojan War
ca. 750 Homer
479 Persian invasion