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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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| c. 625 BC |
| | Hereditary aristocrats hold nearly all political power and own most of the land in Attica | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | The choros, originally danced in a circle by temple virgins, is the centrepiece of the developing Greek theatre | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | Frenzied dances, in honour of the god Dionysus, become part of Greek theatre - deriving probably from the northeast, in Thrace | |
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