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27 Cards in this Set
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Minoan Civilization (Bronze age, crete: Knossos, linear A)
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2200-1450 BC
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Mycenean Civilization (Bronze age, mainland Greece: mycenae, pylos, linear B)
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1600-1200 BC
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Dark Age (Iron Age, oral poetry, no writing)
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1200-800 BC
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Homer, Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, introduction of Phoenician alphabet
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8th century
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Beginnings of Olympic games
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776 BC
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Archaic period (lyric poetry, colonization)
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8th-6th century
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Solon’s reforms
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594/3 BC
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Peisistratos tyrant of Athens
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561/0 BC
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Fall of Sardis, Cyrus conquers Croesus
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547 BC
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Democratic reforms of Cleisthenes
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508/7 BC
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Sack of Sardis by Ionians
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498 BC
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Battle of Marathon
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490 BC
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Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis
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480 BC
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Battles of Plataea & Mycale
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479 BC
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Epidamnus appeals to Corinth for help in civil war
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435 BC
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Corcyra appeals to Athens for help in conflict with Corinth over pidamnus
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433 BC
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Athenians demand hostages from their Dorian ally city Potidaea
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432 BC
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Archidamian War (Spartan king Archidamus)
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431-421 BC
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Pericles’ funeral oration
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431/0 BC
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Plague in Athens
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430 BC
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Death of pericles
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429 BC
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Revolt of Mytilene (Lesbos)
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428/7 BC
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Peace of Nicias
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421 BC
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Conquest of Melos
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416 BC
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Sicilian expedition, mutilation of herms, profanation of mysteries, recall of Alcibiades
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415 BC
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Battle of aigospotamoi, final defeat of Athens, Athens loses empire, 30 tyrants
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404 BC
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Death of Socrates
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399 BC
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