Archaic period

The Archaic period was a period of Greek history from 600 to 480 BC, following the Orientalizing period and preceding the Classical period. The era was marked a massive increase in the Greek population, the establishment of poleis (city-state), an intellectual revolution, the rise of black figure pottery, the development of the Greek alphabet, the creation of Athenian democracy, the Spartan conquest of Messenia, ¬ zavedení helotage ve Spartě, hoplite se stává jádrem řecké armády a vytvoření Peloponnesian League.