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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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| c. 900 BC |
| | | With the encouragements of Athens, non-Dorian Greeeks migrate to form colonies on the west coast of Anatolia | |
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| 776 BC |
| | | The traditional date for the first athletic contest at Olympia | |
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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 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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| c. 700 BC |
| | | The island of Sicily is colonized from the eastern Mediterranean by both Phoenicians and Greeks | |
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| 688 BC |
| | | Boxing is included in the Olympic games, with each bout going on until one fighter gives up | |
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