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Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, [1] following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period. In the archaic period, the Greeks settled across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea : by the end of the period, they were part of a trade network ...
This is a timeline of ancient Greece from its emergence around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages, Aegean civilizations and Mycenaean Greece. For later times see Roman Greece, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Greece. For modern Greece after 1820, see Timeline of modern Greek history.
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
Greek religion was influenced by the practices of the Greeks' near eastern neighbours at least as early as the archaic period, and by the Hellenistic period this influence was seen in both directions. [131] The most important religious act in ancient Greece was animal sacrifice, most commonly of sheep and goats. [132]
The Archaic period can be understood as the Orientalizing period, when Greece was at the fringe, but not under the sway, of the budding Neo-Assyrian Empire. Greece adopted significant amounts of cultural elements from the Orient, in art as well as in religion and mythology. Archaeologically, Archaic Greece is marked by Geometric pottery.
3.1 Ancient Greek history, by period. 3.2 Ancient Greek history, by region. ... probably the most famous artifact of Mycenaean Greece. Timeline of ancient Greece;
Ancient Greece (750 [citation needed] –146 BC, Archaic period to the Roman conquest) Archaic Greece (800–500 BC) Classical Greece (ca. 500–323 BC) Hellenistic period (323–146 BC) Roman Greece (146 BC–640 AD) Medieval Greece. Byzantine Greece (330–1453/60 AD, from the establishment of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman conquest)
Archaic period in classical antiquity (c. eighth to c. sixth centuries BC) Iron Age Europe; Archaic Greece; Classical Greece (fifth to fourth centuries BC) Hellenistic period (323 BC to 146 BC) Roman Republic (fifth to first centuries BC) Roman Empire (first century BC to fifth century AD) Late Antiquity (fourth to seventh centuries AD)