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Events

Africa

• First archaeological trace of an establishment Phénicie N on the site of Carthage.

India

• the domination of the Aryens is attested on the valley of the Gange.

The Middle East

• the Cimmériens, come from current the the Crimea, destroy the Urartu, then pushed back towards the west, the Lydie NS and the Phrygie NS beat.

Greek world

• Foundation of the first Greek colonies, from the Western Mediterranean to the Eastern coasts of the Black Sea.
• Period of the geometrical recent in Greece (-750/-700).
• social Revolution resulting from a crisis in the rows of the aristocracy. Passage of the “tribal” community at the company of the city and the return to the State. The city-State is distinguished from the State with wide territory ( ethnos ), which persists in particular in Greece of the north (Thessalie) and which undoubtedly prolongs a system inherited the obscure centuries.
• In the big cities develops a market economy. The urban population increases, of the social layers appear, the Esclavage develops. The communication, the ideological currents progress. Laws govern the private and public relations. An objective justice appears. Public work of interest is completed. Army corps are created.

Italy

• Foundation of Rome in the year -753 by the two brothers Remus and Romulus, wire of the Roman She-wolf. This event will constitute the year 1 Roman calendar.
• Culture villanovienne of Benacci I in the area of Bologna in the middle of VIIIe century.

Significant characters

• Homère

• Romulus

Art & cultures

• probable Composition of the Iliade and the Odyssey . Homère would have been born in Ionie (-850, -750). Eumélos, poet of Corinth, composes its poem of the “Corinthiaques” where it evokes the mythical origins of the city.
• Development in Greece of the “worship of the heroes” of -750 with -700: veneration of tombs mycéniennes or contemporary (Argolide, Attic, Cyclades) aiming at giving an identity to the civic community in the city-States.
• Construction of the first absidaux monumental temples: Daphnéphorion with Érétrie and the temple of Héra Akraia of Pérachora on the gulf of Corinth.
• has Athens, return to the burial with the detriment of the incineration.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Diffusion of the metallurgy of iron in England.

• Direct contact with the East and installation in Greece of Eastern bronziers. The work of bronze, for a long time attested with Argos, appears only not very front -750 with Corinthe then with Athens.
• First Greek alphabetical inscription.
• the Greeks of the Peloponnese transform the galère with a row of oarsman into “Birème” with two rows and combat spur.