1. Greek
History
in a
Nutshell
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2. The Major Periods of
Greek History
• Prehistoric
Greece
• Ancient
Greece
• Byzantine
Empire (4th
century -
1453)
• Ottoman rule
(15th century
- 1821)
• Modern
Greek state
(1821-)

3. Pre-Historic Greece
• Greek cave-men,
essentially
• Neolithic – Nothing
• Works of Homer written much happened
about this time here
• The Iliad and Odyssey • Bronze Age – a little
were supposed to have
happened thenabouts more happened
• The Cycladic
and Minoans.
• The Hittites and Egyptians The
showed up Mycenaeans.
• Loot of rubies and • Early Iron Ages –
boobies.
• The end of writing and Dark Ages
knowledge
• [a huge ‘reset button,
apparently]

4. Ancient Greece – the
Golden Age
• SPARTAAAAA!
• …Athens
• Tyrants and
Triumvirs
• Persian Wars
• Marathon
• Thermopylae
• Peloponnesian War

5. Ancient Greece – the
Golden Age
• Pericles
• Theatre,
Philosophy, History
• Olympics
• Religion
• Peloponnesian War
• Oracle at Delphi

6. Ancient Greece – Rise of
the Macedonians
• Alexander, mostly
• The decline of the
prominence of
Atrhens/Sparta

7. The Turning Point
of the World
Delenda
Carthagio Est

8. Roman Greece
• The Greeks were Romans
The were Greeks were
Romans Romans were Greeks
were Romans
are CRAZY
• THE reason why Greece
is attributed to be the
cradle of Western
Civilization

9. Eastern Roman
(Byzantine) Greece
• Economic Prosperity
• Artistic Revival
• The Fourth Crusade
“To understand modern Greece one
has to realize that for centuries it was
their dream to restore the Byzantine
empire with Constantinople as capital
of a Greater Greece. This is known as
the 'Megali Idea', the Great Idea and
nearly 500 years later it almost
happens. But was their Megali
Idea really a restoration of a Hellenic-
Christian empire or a nationalistic
pipe-dream that served the purpose
of uniting the Greeks at the expense
of peaceful relationships with their
neighbors?”

10. Ottoman Greece
• The Greeks are Turks
The guy who
made this
presentation
is crazy

11. The Seats of Power So
Far
• Crete
• Athens-Sparta-
Athens-Sparta
• Macedon
• Rome
• Constantinople
• Istanbul

12. Modern Greece
• Revolution
• WW I – Greeks side
with the bad guys
• WW II Greeks side
with the good guys
• Navarone
happened here

13. Modern Greece
• Civil War
• Post War
Reconstruction
• The Junta
• Rebellion
• Greece going Broke