Athens And Sparta Exam 1

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Lelantine Wars

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ca. 700 BCE
-Eretria and Chalcis fought over the Lelantine plain between the 2 cities- Among the first Greek city states to emerge from the Dark Ages
-both had multiple allies on both sides
Problems of sources- temporal proximity, not consistent with Greek warfare, large scale war unlikely, steles aren't common for a couple hundred years, writing is new at this point
-Thucydides- most didn't have big fleets or alliances except for this war
-Herodotus- Eretrians allied with Miletus
-Strabo- Stele in the temple of Artemis
Plutarch- mentions Archilochus, they used swords not bows or slings

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Thucydides

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400 BCE

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Herodotus

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425 BCE

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Strabo

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330 BCE

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Plutarch

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100 CE

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Lefkandi

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-Between Chalcis and Etretria
-Fair amount of activity during the Dark Ages
-"Monumental" architecture

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Intentionality

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why was the event recorded

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Contextual fit

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fits with what we already know about the time period- like Lelantine war stele not making sense

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Fall of the Mycenaean Civilization

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1200-1100 BCE
-Climate change/drought- dendrochronology
-Earthquakes- destructions,but we don't see bodies underneath ruins
-Civil War- popular with Marxists- lower classes rising up against overlord
-Systems collapse- affected by falls of other civilizations like the Hittites and Egypt

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Sea Peoples

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-movements of people raiding and marauding in the Egyptian writings
-Achaeans might have BEEN among the Sea Peoples

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Dorian Invasion

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1100 BCE

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Ionian Migration

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800-450

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Lefkandi

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-habitation seems to stop around 1100
-picks up around 950

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Polis

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Early 8th to 7th century

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Emergence of tyrants

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ca. 650 BCE

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Colonization

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8th century sees dispatch of apoikiai
continue to ca. 550 BCE

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Chigi Vase

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650-640 BCE

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Tyrtaios

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ca. 650 BCE

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Amyklai

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7th century or earlier

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Dark Age Sparta

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7th century or earlier abandonment of sites
little activity til 10th century
9th century increasing activity

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Synoecism

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8th century

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Pausanias

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2nd CE

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Plutarch

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1st CE

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Aristotle

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4th BCE

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Xenophon

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5th/4th BCE

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Tyrtaeus

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7th BCE

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Lycurgus

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850-675 or 650

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First Messenian War

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730-710 (traditional dates_

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Colonization for Taras

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706 bCE

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2nd Messenian War

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685-668 BCE (traditional dates)

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Battle of Hysiae with Argos

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669 BCE

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Battle of Champions

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550/545 BCE

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most of Peloponneses allied with Sparta

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ca. 535 BCE

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Dark Ages

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110-900 BCE

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Recovery in Athens

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900-750 BCE

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First annual Archons

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682 BCE

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Attempted coup of Kylon

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ca. 635 BCE

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Laws of Drakon

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ca. 620 BCE

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Archonship of Solon

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594

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Bronze Age

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3000-1100 BCE

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Kylon

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630 bCE

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Drakon

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621

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Peisistratos seizes acropolis

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560 BCE

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Homer

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wrote around 700 BCE

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Hesiod

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composed c. 700 bCE

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Olympiads

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start 766 and become reliable after 600 BCE

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Greek Renaissance

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8th century BCE

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Hoplite panoply

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750-650 BCE

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Ephors

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lists go back to ca 750 BCE

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Hippias

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528-510 BCE

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Archon List

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527/6-522/1

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Spartan Invasion

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