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| 776 BC |
| | | The traditional date for the first athletic contest at Olympia | |
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| 753 BC |
| | | This year is later selected by Roman scholars as the date of the founding of Rome, becoming the first year (AUC 1) in Roman chronology | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | The Etruscans establish Italy's first civilization, in the region between the Arno and the Tiber | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | The Homeric texts, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are written down - probably in Ionia | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | The Greeks make the Phoenician alphabet much more flexible by the addition of vowels, from alpha to omega | |
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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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| 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. 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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| c. 550 BC |
| | | The painters of Greek vases develop the black-figure style, with the scene depicted in black silhouette against a red ground | |
|  | Greek vase, black-figure style
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