Timeline: Mediterranean

• c. 1200 BCE - c. 800 BCE
  First wave of Phoenician colonization where largely trading-posts are founded throughout the Mediterranean.
• 1000 BCE - 338 BCE
  Ancient Greek civilization in Greece and the Mediterranean.
• c. 800 BCE - 600 BCE
  Second stage of Phoenician colonization where trading-posts become full colonies throughout the Mediterranean.
• 800 BCE - 500 BCE
  Greek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
• 539 BCE
  Etruscan & Carthaginian alliance expels the Greeks from Corsica.
• 323 BCE - 31 BCE
  Hellenistic civilization in Greece, the Mediterranean and Asia.