Greek World 1A
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Updated: 10 Dec 2018
1600 to ~450
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Mycenae and other sites become power centers, small kingdoms emergeShaft gravesLinear B writingCultural DeclineSmall chiefdoms established
Migrations of mainland Greeks to IoniaDorian Greeks settled in the mainland and the IslandsMonumental building at Lefkandipopulation increases, new settlements established, trade and manufacture expandcontinued population growthGrreeks develop an alphabet, earliest temples builtFirst Olympic gamesnew palaces in GreeceOverseas colonisation to the west begins"Orientalizing period" in art beginsHesiod. Period of Lyric poetry beginsTemples built of stone and marble, Corinthian black figure techniqueColonization of the Black sea are beginsEarliest known inscription of a law... Lycurgan reforms at SpartaCylon fails in attemt of Tyranny at AthensLaw code of Draco in AthensLydians begin to mint coinsBeginnings of Science and philosophy (The presocratics)Cleisthenes institutes political reforms in AthensDecision to choose Athenian archons by lotBattle of Marathonbattle of hysiae, Spartan defeatPeriods
Late Bronze AgeMycenaeans take over Crete"Trojan war"height of Mycenaean power and prosperityEarly Dark AgeLate Dark AgeArchaic PeriodClassical PeriodCity states emerge
Evolution of Hoplite warfarefirst Messenian War, Lelantine WarIliad and Odyssey composedAge of Tyrants, ruling in many city statesPhythian, Isthmian, Nemean games inauguratedPeisistratos and his sons are tyrants in Athens
Peisistratos expands religious festivals in AthensXenophonAristotlePlato
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