Western Civilization I
Outline #6
Professor Knight

Classical Greek Civilization Part I.

I. The Archaic Period (750-500BC)
        "Dark Ages (1100-750BC)
        Dramatic increase in population in 8^th century
        Baliseis—Landowning elite
        Demos—Ordinary people
        Overpopulation
        Colonization
            Sicily, Ionian Coast, Black Sea, North Africa
        Trade networks
        The Phoenicians
        Greeks adopt Phoenician (Ugaritic) alphabet
        The Polis
        Hoplite Phalanx
        Aristocracy
        Tyrants
        Oligarchy

II. City States
        Corinth
            Cypselus (Tyrant--657-625)
            Three-tiered political system
                Council of Eight (Oligarchs)
                Council of Eighty
                Demos
        Sparta
            Conquest of Messina
            Helots
            Lycurgus (mythical law-giver)
            The "Similars"
            Periokoi (free artisans)
            Agoge—system of education
            Krypteia (secret service)
            Peloponnesian League
            Cultural Isolation