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1100 BCE
Dark Age of Greece
The population of Greece is believed to have decreased by 90% in the centuries following the collapse of the Bronze Age. This is because they were isolated from their neighbors after being a traveling and trading culture. -
800 BCE
End of Dark Age
Began the Archaic Age of Greece which lasted from 800-490 BCE. -
776 BCE
Olympics
The Olympics were named after the southern site in Greece, they were held every four years. -
750 BCE
Literature
This is when the earliest surviving Greek literature is from, thanks to the new alphabet, it served as the basis for the Roman alphabet. -
700 BCE
Peloponnesus
The Spartans conquered a large area of territory in their home region, in the southern Greek peninsula called the Peloponnesus -
650 BCE
Age of Tyrants
Many poleis instituted tyrants to stave off a civil war being the less wealthy citizens and the aristocrats. -
600 BCE
Spartans
The Spartans placed total emphasis on a super elite, but smaller, citizenship of warriors. -
500 BCE
Oligarchy
Oligarchy, a comprised government, wanted to replace the aristocrats and the tyrants. -
400 BCE
Athens vs Sparta
During this century the Athens and Spartans rivaled each other for the most powerful polis in Greece -
600
Athens
The Athens were rich and very populous, they had a population of 600,000 in just a 1,000 square mile radius. They were also a prominent force in the Mediterranean trade. -
Test Question
What makes the Greeks so memorable was what they discovered and left behind that shaped our world to this day. They invented educational practices that we still to this day.