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800 BCE
The Archaic period begins, due to an increase in the population of Greece and a structural revolution that established the Greek city-states.
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800 BCE
The midpoint of Greece's development of Geometry
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800 BCE
The Archaic Greeks made the first "true" alphabet, with sounds for vowels and consonants.
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Period: 800 BCE to 480 BCE
Timespan of some of Archaic Greece's greatest accomplishments
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776 BCE
The first Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, taking place on April 6th through 15th
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508 BCE
Around the same time of the earliest known cases of democracy, Archaic Greeks used one of the earliest known cases of the jury system.
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507 BCE
Greece develops one of the first and earliest known democracies
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335 BCE
Alexander the Great regained control over several places, following his capture of the Achaemenid Persian Empire expanding Archaic Greece