Archaic Period (800 - 480 BCE)

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  • 800 BCE

    Sparta emerges from the Greek Dark Ages

    Sparta
  • Period: 800 BCE to 700 BCE

    The Iliad and The Odyssey are written down

  • Period: 800 BCE to 700 BCE

    Greek colonization begins

    In the Black Sea, North Africa, Southern Italy, Sicily, France and Spain
  • Period: 734 BCE to 724 BCE

    First Messenian War

    Sparta
  • 724 BCE

    Spartan conquest of Messenia in the First Messenian War

    Sparta
  • 706 BCE

    Taras (Southern Italy) founded as a Spartan colony

    Sparta
  • 700 BCE

    Hoplite warfare developed

    Over several generations, first depicted in pottery 650 BCE
  • Period: 685 BCE to 668 BCE

    Second Messenian War

    Sparta
  • 669 BCE

    Sparta defeated by Argos at the battle of Hysiai

    Sparta
  • 650 BCE

    Spartan reforms begin

    Sparta
    Laws of Lycurgus proclaimed - changes that made it a military state are attributed to him
  • 621 BCE

    Draconian Laws drawn up in Athens (c.)

    Athens
    Known as first written code of laws drawn up
  • Period: 600 BCE to 500 BCE

    Oligarchic government seizes power in Corinth

  • Period: 600 BCE to 500 BCE

    Athenian pottery becomes widespread in Mediterranean

    Athens