Rise of the polis
750 BCE–500 BCE* · Event
Independent city-states (poleis) become the defining Greek political form; Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes the major players.
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- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Age of Pericles in Athens (461 BCE)
- Athenian democracy founded (508 BCE)
- Hellenistic period (323 BCE)
- Mycenaean civilisation rises (1600 BCE)
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- Founding of Rome (traditional) (753 BCE)
- Upanishads composed (800 BCE)
- Founding of Carthage (814 BCE)
- Homer (800 BCE)
- Homer's Odyssey composed (700 BCE)
- Homer's Iliad composed (750 BCE)
- Greek alphabet developed (800 BCE)
- Spring and Autumn period (771 BCE)
- Median Empire (678 BCE)