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Jan 1, 776
776 BC First Pan Hellenic athletes contests ( Olympic Games )
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Jan 1, 1100
1100 BC The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed on the Asia Minor coast.
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Jan 1, 1400
1400 BC Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World
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2000 BC Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive ( first known Greek‐speaking tribes )
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490 BC First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon
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899‐800 BC New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop
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800 BC Homer writes the ILIAD
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509 BC Democracy develops
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480 BC Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they