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Greece Understand & Survival (Chapter) Edition 10th Edition, March 2012 Pages 86 Page Range 709- © Lonely Planet Publication ...

GREECE TODAY............................. 710 The Greek psyche remains spirited and passionate but is laced with anxiety as the ...

710 Greece Today Spirit of Rebellion Personal freedom and democratic rights are sacrosanct to Greeks, and a residual mistrust of ...

711 the church is still a key element of Greek life even taking into account the drop off in the younger generation’s footfalls ...

7000– BC For 4000 years the early inhabitants of the Greek peninsula live a simple agrarian life, growing crops and herding anim ...

HISTORY ARTISTIC & CULTURAL LEGACIES 1700–1550 BC Santorini erupts with a cataclysmic volcanic explosion, causing a Mediterr ...

HISTORY ARTISTIC & CULTURAL LEGACIES 1100 BC The Dorians overrun the Mycenaean cities in Crete. They reorganise the politica ...

HISTORY ARTISTIC & CULTURAL LEGACIES 800–650 BC Independent city- states begin to emerge in the Archaic Age as the Dorians d ...

HISTORY WAR & CONQUEST 480 BC Darius’ son and heir Xerxes seeks revenge for the defeat at Mara- thon. The enormous forces se ...

HISTORY WAR & CONQUEST 431–21 BC The military might of Sparta runs afoul of the commercial and artistic clout of Athens over ...

HISTORY WAR & CONQUEST 399 BC S o c r a t e s s t a n d s t r i a l , accused of corrupting the young with peda- gogical spe ...

HISTORY WAR & CONQUEST 359 BC In the north, the Macedonians are on the rise as King Philip II seizes the initiative in the p ...

HISTORY FOREIGN RULE 67 BC The Romans fi nally conquer Crete after invading two years earlier at Kydonia. Gortyna becomes the ca ...

HISTORY FOREIGN RULE 250 The fi rst Christian martyrs, the so- called Agii Deka (Ten Saints) are killed in the Cretan village of ...

HISTORY INDEPENDENCE 529 Athens’ cultural infl uence is dealt a fatal blow when Emperor Justinian outlaws the teaching of classi ...

HISTORY THE MODERN GREEK NATION 1453 Greece becomes a dominion of the Ottoman Turks after they seize control of Constantinople, ...

HISTORY THE MODERN GREEK NATION 1770s & 1780s Catherine the Great of Russia dislodges the Turks from the Black Sea coast and ...

HISTORY THE MODERN GREEK NATION 1827 British, French and Russian forces sink the combined Turkish-Egyptian naval fl eet in the B ...

HISTORY THE MODERN GREEK NATION 1863– The British engineer the ascension to the Greek throne of Danish Prince William, later cro ...

HISTORY THE MODERN GREEK NATION 1900 Sir Arthur Evans begins excavations at Knossos, quickly unearthing the palace and stunning ...