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The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC


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Factional politics


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The aristocracies of each city state ceased to act as one body organized around their class interest; factions developed within them. It is possible that the colonizing activity of the period gave impetus to this development; the establishment of a colony would require an organization and constitution and would stimulate debate about politics.
Contents of
The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC

1 Population growth and land hunger
2 Economic expansion and the rising "middle class"
3 Cultural developments in Greece during the period of tyrannies
4 Hoplite tactics
5 Factional politics
6 Ethnic tensions
7 The downfall of tyrants in archaic Greece
8 The Dorian and Ionic migrations
9 The Dorians
10 Greek Dark age
11 The Greek City States
12 Greek colonization of the C8th BC
13 Greek colonization of the Aegean and East
14 Greek settlers in the Euxine
15 Causes of the Greek colonization
16 Archaeological evidence for Greek population expansion in C8th BC
17 Foundation of Cyrene
18 Corcyra
19 Olbia
20 The Lelantine war
21 Relations with Egypt
22 Greek Culture during the Greek Middle Ages
23 Introduction of phonetic script
24 Homer
25 Hesiod
26 Foundation of the Olympic Games

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