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Greece
Background
Greece was a civilization based around the Aegean Sea and the larger Mediterranean Sea. Referring to Greece as a unified civilization is very interesting because of the various regional and competing city-states that comprised it. Unlike other forms of government in the ancient era, the city-states of Greece were largely autonomous for most of their history and often at war with each other.
However, when the threat of external invasion from the Achaemenid Persian Empire, they quickly unified and mobilized into an effective force that pushed the Persians out of Greece for good.
Known as the father of western civilization, Greece was renowned for its cultural influence and its poets, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, artists and many others are well known to this current day. In fact, if it were not for the Muslims, most of these works would have been lost to the ravages of time and war.
Origins
Mycenaean Greece
See Mycenaean Greece.
Archaic Greece
Classical Greece
Rise of the City-States
![Greece - Greece (700-600 BCE)](https://historygreek.org/images/maps/greece-700-600-BCE.png)
Greece (700-600 BCE) - Historical Atlas (1923)
![Greece - Greece and Phoenicia Map (550 BCE)](https://historygreek.org/images/maps/greece-and-phoenicia-map-550-BCE.png)
Greece & Phoenicia Map (550 BCE) - Historical Atlas (1923)
Peloponnesian War
![Greece - Greece (431 BCE)](https://historygreek.org/images/maps/greece-431-BCE.png)
Greece (431 BCE) - Historical Atlas (1923)
Achaemenid Empire
![Greece - Greece (500-479 BCE)](https://historygreek.org/images/maps/greece-500-479-BCE.png)
Greece (500-479 BCE) - Historical Atlas (1923)
Greco-Persian Wars
Alexander the Great
![Greece - Greece (362 BCE)](https://historygreek.org/images/maps/greece-362-BCE.png)
Greece (362 BCE) - Historical Atlas (1923)
Hellenistic Greece
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Cultures
- Abantes
- Achae
- Achaeans
- Achaemenid Empire
- Aeolians
- Almopians
- Amphictyonic League
- Arcadians
- Archaic Period
- Assyria
- Athenian Empire
- Boeotia
- Bosporean Kingdom
- Bronze Age Collapse
- Bronze Age Cultures
- Bronze Age
- Brygians
- Cabalians
- Carians
- Cilician Pirates
- Cimmerians
- Classical Period
- Colchis
- Cycladic Culture
- Cydonians
- Cypriots
- Cyrenaica
- Dardani
- Delian League
- Derrones
- Deuriopus
- Doberes
- Dorian Hexapolis
- Dorian Invasion
- Dorians
- Doric Pentapolis
- Dryopes
- Early Bronze Age
- Early Classical Period
- Early Minoan Period
- Egypt
- Elimoitis
- Elymians
- Etruscans
- First Athenian Empire
- First Greek Colonization
- Frankokratia
- Geometric Period
- Greco Roman Culture
- Greco Sarmatian Culture
- Greece
- Greek Colonies
- Greek Colonization
- Greek Cultural Periods
- Greek Dark Ages
- Greek Olympic Games
- Greeks In Black Sea
- Greeks In Gaul
- Helladic Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Helots
- Hittites
- Hytennians
- Iconium
- Illyrians
- Ionian League
- Ionians
- Iron Age
- Italiotes
- Laeaeans
- Laestrygonians
- Lapiths
- Lasonians
- Late Bronze Age Collapse
- Late Bronze Age
- Late Classical Period
- Late Minoan Period
- League Of The Arcadians
- Libya
- Locrians
- Lycian League
- Lycians
- Lydian Empire
- Lydians
- Macedon
- Mariandynians
- Mesopotamia
- Middle Bronze Age
- Middle Classical Period
- Middle Minoan Period
- Minoan Genius
- Minoan Pirates
- Minoans
- Minyans
- Mycenaean Greece
- Mycenaeans
- Myrmidons
- Mysians
- Neodamodes
- Neolithic Period
- Nuragic
- Odomanti
- Orientalizing Period
- Paeonia
- Paeoplae
- Paricanians
- Pax Minoica
- Pelasgians
- Peloponnesian League
- Pentecontaetia
- Perioeci
- Phoenicians
- Phrygians
- Pontic Greeks
- Pontic Pentapolis
- Pre Pottery Neolithic B
- Roman Greece
- Roman Republic
- Sciritae
- Scythians
- Second Athenian Empire
- Second Greek Colonization
- Sicani
- Siceliotes
- Sicels
- Siropaiones
- Starcevo Culture
- Thracians
- Turdetani