Ancient Greece By ChaosDave!7 800 BCE The Archaic period begins, due to an increase in the population of Greece and a structural revolution that established the Greek city-states. 800 BCE The midpoint of Greece's development of Geometry 800 BCE The Archaic Greeks made the first "true" alphabet, with sounds for vowels and consonants. Period: 800 BCE to 480 BCE Timespan of some of Archaic Greece's greatest accomplishments 776 BCE The first Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, taking place on April 6th through 15th 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. 507 BCE Greece develops one of the first and earliest known democracies 335 BCE Alexander the Great regained control over several places, following his capture of the Achaemenid Persian Empire expanding Archaic Greece