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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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| c. 667 BC |
| | | Byzantium (the future Constantinople) is founded as a colony of Megara, a Greek city-state | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | | The Greek city states make a habit of consulting the oracle at Delphi, hoping mainly for reassurance | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | | The capitals of Greek pillars are by now in the two basic patterns of Doric and Ionic | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | | The inhabitants of Messenia revolt against Spartan rule and are reduced, in retaliation, to the status of serfs or helots | |
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| c. 630 BC |
| | | The Areopagus, named from the hill on Athens where it meets, is the council through which the nobles keep power in their own hands | |
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