The Archaic Period (750-500)
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The Rise of the Polis
The Age of Colonization
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Sources for the period
General causes of colonization
Characteristics of Greek Colonization
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Model
The Founder
Site Selection
Settlers
City Planning
Areas of Colonization
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Southern Italy and Sicily
The Black Sea Region
Results of colonization
Key Terms
ethnos
polis
synoecism
apoikia
metropolis
oikistes
The Archaic Period (750-500)
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Art and Architecture
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Doric
Ionic
The Archaic Period (750-500)
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Greek Warfare
On Land
 By Sea
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Key Terms
hoplite
phalanx
Lelantine War
penteconter
bireme
The Archaic Period (750-500)
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Rise of Tyrannies
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Causes
Famous Tyrants
The Lyric Poets
Key Terms
Pheidon of Argos
Cleisthenes of Sicyon
Cypselus of Corinth
symposium
Archilochos
Theognis
Sappho
The Archaic Period (750-500)
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SPARTA
The People
 Upbringing
 Adult Life
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Key Terms
Lacedaemonians
spartiates
perioikoi
helots
Krypteia
The Archaic Period (750-500)
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SPARTA (cont’d)
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Early Monarchy (bef. 800)
Reforms of Lycurgus
The Constitution
The Messenian Wars
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First Messenian War (740720)
Second Messenian War
(650-620)
The Spartan Achievement
Key Terms
ephors
gerousia
assembly
First Messenian War
Second Messenian War
The Archaic Period (750-500)
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ATHENS
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Formation of the Polis
Oligarchic Period (c. 750-560)
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Archons
Areopagus
Assembly
Classes
Key Terms
archon eponymous
basileus archon
polemarch archon
Thesmothetes
Council of the Areopagus
eupatrids
The Archaic Period (750-500)
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ATHENS (cont’d)
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Oligarchic Period (c. 750-560) (cont’d)
Cylon (632 BCE)
 Dracon (621 BCE)
 Solon (594-560 BCE)
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Key Terms
Cylon
Megacles
Dracon
Solon
Council of the 400
hybris
miasma
The Archaic Period (750-500)
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ATHENS (cont’d)
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The Pisistratid Tyranny (560-510 BCE)
The Democratic Period (510-)
Key Terms
Pisistratus
Hippias and Hipparchus
Harmodius and Aristogiton
Cleisthenes
Cleomenes
Isagoras
demes
demarchos
dicasteries
ostracism
The Archaic Period (750-500)
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I. The Early Philosophers
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Thales
The Milesian (Ionian) School
Thales (c. 624-c.546)
Anaximander (c. 610-c546)
Anaximenes (c. 570-c.500)
Ionian-Italian Migrant Philosophers
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Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475)
Pythagoras of Samos (c. 582-c.497)
Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535-c. 475)
Heraclitus
Key Terms
Thales
arche
logos
Anaximander
apeiron
Anaximenes
Xenophanes
Pythagoras
Heraclitus
The Archaic Period (750-500)
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The Advent of the Persians
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Lydia
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Croesus (560-546)
Persia
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Cyrus II (559-530)
Cambyses II (530-522)
Darius I (522-486)
Key Terms
Lydia
Croesus
Media
Cyrus the Great
Cambyses
Polycrates
Darius the Great
Miltiades
Histiaeus
Megabazus
The Persian Wars
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The Ionian Revolt
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Revolution on Naxos (502)
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Aristagoras
Artaphernes
Open Revolt (500-499)
The Burning of Sardis (499)
Insurrection Put Down (498-494)
The First Persian War (492-490)
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First Persian Invasion (492)
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Mardonius
Second Persian Invasion (490)
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Datis and Artaphernes (Jr.)
Siege of Eretria
Battle of Marathon
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Miltiades
Aristides and Themistocles
Callimachus
Plataea
The Persian Wars
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Athens After Marathon
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Death of Miltiades
War Between Athens and Aegina
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trireme, bireme (type 2)
The Second Persian War (480-479)
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Persian Preparations
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Greek Preparations
The Battle of Thermopylae
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Eurybiades
The Fall of Athens
The Battle of Salamis
The Battle of Plataea
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Leonidas
The Battle of Artemisium
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Xerxes
Pausanius
The Battle of Mycale
The Siege of Sestos
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Xanthippus