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First use of Greek alphabet. The Greek alphabet was born when the Greeks adapted the Phoenician writing system to represent their own language by developing a fully phonetic writing system composed of individual signs arranged in a linear fashion that could represent both consonants and vowels. This was not the first writing system used to write greek.
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Foundation of Ancient Rome. Legend has it that rome was founded on April 21. Founded by the twin brothers of Romulus and Remus . Eventually having a political growth like the greek city states.
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The Persians ruled a vast empire which stretched from Turkey and Egypt to India. Persians conquer Mesopotamia.
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High point of Greek black-figure style of ceramic pottery. Soon followed by red-figure. This one of the styles that was used to describe the vases. Very common between the 5th and 7th century of BCE.
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Democracy in Athen starts. Democracy is a modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a parliment
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Greek sculptor Polykleitos creates Doryphoros statue. This is one of the most known greek statues in western art. Depicting a solidly-built, well-muscled standing athlete, originally bearing a spear balanced on his left shoulder
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Famous Greek bronze sculpture: Discus Thrower. Discus throwing is an event in track and field which an athlete throws a discus.
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Construction of the Parthenon begins. It was dedicated to the Athenas goddess.The Parthenon itself replaced an older temple of Athena, which historians call the Pre-Parthenon
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Famous Etruscan works: Capitoline Wolf and Chimera of Arezzo. The Etruria Works was a ceramics factory opened by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769 in a district of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which he named Etruria.
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Greek sculptor Praxiteles produces Aphrodite of Knidos and Hermes
