Timeline of the Iron Age Year - Event 670, Bronze Age - The last of the Solar Exalted perish. A few shards escape despite the imprisonment of the greater body of Solar souls. 0, Iron Age - The last of the Bronze generation is destroyed, and the power of their capital at Mycenae wanes. Only a few Phoenix Blooded of the 7th Legion remain. Greece dissolves into a series of city-states. 1, I.A.- Zeus creates the Iron generation of men. 15, I.A.- The return of the Heraclides, the descendents of Heracles. 19, I.A.- The Heraclides lay claim to Greece, arguing that they are the heirs of Heracles and therefore Perseus, the founder of Mycenae. 21, I.A.- The Heraclides attack Peloponnesus and capture all of the cities, but a Great Contagion ravaged the country, and an oracle declares that this happen