Important Events

Important Events

Chapter 2 Review: Important Events

1000–750 B.C.E. Greece experiences Dark Age
900 B.C.E. Neo-Assyrian Empire emerges
800 B.C.E. Greeks learn to write with an alphabet
776 B.C.E. Olympic Games are founded in Greece
750 B.C.E. Greeks begin to create the polis
700 B.C.E. Spartans conquer Messenia, enslave its inhabitants as helots
700–500 B.C.E. Ionian philosophers develop rationalism
657 B.C.E. Cypselus becomes tyrant in Corinth
630 B.C.E. The lyric poet Sappho is born
597 and 586 B.C.E. Israelites are exiled to Babylon
594 B.C.E. Solon’s reforms promote early democracy in Athens
546–510 B.C.E. Peisistratus’s family rules Athens as tyrants
539 B.C.E. Persian king Cyrus captures Babylon, permits Israelites to return to Canaan
508–500 B.C.E. Cleisthenes’s reforms extend democracy in Athens

Consider three events: Ionian philosophers develop rationalism (700–500 B.C.E.), the lyric poet Sappho is born (630 B.C.E.), and Solon’s reforms promote early democracy in Athens (594 B.C.E.). How did the development of the Greek city-state (polis) encourage new modes of thinking and expression in science, philosophy, and literature?

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Consider three events: Ionian philosophers develop rationalism (700–500 B.C.E.), the lyric poet Sappho is born (630 B.C.E.), and Solon’s reforms promote early democracy in Athens (594 B.C.E.). How did the development of the Greek city-state (polis) encourage new modes of thinking and expression in science, philosophy, and literature?