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Rise of Tyrannies in Greek City-States (c. 650–500 BCE)

670 BCE - 508 BCE

Orientalizing Period: Near Eastern Influences on Greek Art (c. 750–600 BCE)

800 BCE - 580 BCE

Olympic Games and Panhellenic Festivals in the Archaic Age (c. 776–480 BCE)

776 BCE - 480 BCE

Lyric Poetry and Poets of the Archaic Age: From Homeric Performance to Sappho (c. 800–500 BCE)

750 BCE - 520 BCE

Ionian Revolt and the Prelude to the Persian Wars (499–493 BCE)

499 BCE - 493 BCE

Introduction and Early Adoption of Coinage in Greece (c. 650–480 BCE)

630 BCE - 480 BCE

Greek Colonization of the Western Mediterranean (c. 750–550 BCE)

775 BCE - 535 BCE

Formation of Spartan Institutions and the Lycurgan Tradition (c. 800–500 BCE)

800 BCE - 506 BCE

Early Greek Philosophy and the Pre-Socratic Schools (c. 600–480 BCE)

600 BCE - 480 BCE

Development of Hoplite Warfare and the Phalanx (c. 750–480 BCE)

725 BCE - 479 BCE

Corinthian Economic Expansion and Colonial Foundations (c. 750–500 BCE)

500 - 734

Colonization of Sicily and Magna Graecia (c. 750–500 BCE)

775 BCE - 628 BCE

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