How to link to Archive page?

I’m just finalizing my WordPress site, with a completely custom theme, which means that I excised a lot of the code from the existing templates. I was, however, very careful, removing code chunks bit-by-bit. And I am fairly comfortable around the PHP blocks. I also saved the code for each section of the theme before altering it.

Everything is going great, but I’m stumped by one thing…I expected to have an “Archive” page, which would list all posts I’ve made. But I can’t seem to find such a page, and the Archive template seems to be broken into month and year and so forth. Not to mention the fact that it wants to include a post/entry on the page.

So my question is, how do I create a page that simply lists all posts from earliest to latest? And then, how do I create a link to that page?

Thanks!