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| c. 1150 BC |
| | | Mycenae and other states of the Peloponnese are overwhelmed by invading Dorian Greeks | |
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| c. 1100 BC |
| | | Athens, not reached by the invading Dorians, becomes a surviving outpost of Mycenaean civilization | |
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| 776 BC |
| | | The traditional date for the first athletic contest at Olympia | |
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| 753 BC |
| | | This year is later selected by Roman scholars as the date of the founding of Rome, becoming the first year (AUC 1) in Roman chronology | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | Ionia emerges as a political entity, forming a league of twelve Greek cities in Asia Minor | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | The Etruscans establish Italy's first civilization, in the region between the Arno and the Tiber | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | The Homeric texts, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are written down - probably in Ionia | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | The inhabitants of Sparta organize their society on military lines and consider themselves the descendants of the Dorians | |
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| c. 704 BC |
| | | Wrestling is included in the Olympic games, followed by a terrifying form of all-in wrestling from 652 BC | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | The Greeks make the Phoenician alphabet much more flexible by the addition of vowels, from alpha to omega | |
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