Slide 1: History of Greece: A Timeless Journey. Slide 2: Geography & Early Settlements. Slide 3: Bronze Age: Minoans & Mycenaeans. Slide 4: The Archaic Period (c. 800 - 500 BCE). Slide 5: Classical Greece (c. 500 - 323 BCE). Slide 6: Classical Greece: Conflict and Decline. Slide 7: The Hellenistic Period (c. 323 - 31 BCE). Slide 8: Roman & Byzantine Eras. Slide 9: Ottoman Rule & Independence. Slide 10: Modern Greece (20th & 21st Centuries)