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What was the decisive political event that brought about a switch from the Archaic to the Early Classical Style?

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We can describe the “Archaic Period” is a convenient term to describe a period in which the Greeks made significant innovations in sculpture, painting, and architecture.

They were still being influenced by the East -For example they learned how to manipulate and carve stone from the Egyptians.

In the classification of the archeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.

The Archaic Period is preceded by the Greek Dark Age (c.1200- 800 BCE), a period about which little is known for sure, and followed by the Classical Period.

which is one of the better documented periods of Greek history, with tragedies, comedies, histories, legal cases and more surviving in the form of literary and epigraphic sources.

Decisive political event that brought about a switch from the Archaic to the Early Classical Style

In the Archaic Period there were vast changes in Greek language, society, art, architecture, and politics.

These changes occurred due to the increasing population of Greece and its increasing amount trade, which in turn led to colonization and a new age of intellectual ideas, the most important of which (at least to the modern Western World) was Democracy.

This would then fuel, in a rather circular way, more cultural changes.

1) Politics and Law

The most notable change implemented by Solon was the seisachtheia, the ‘shaking-off-of-burdens’. This decree canceled debts, banned the use of one’s own person as security for a loan, and recalled all of those who had been sold as slaves and those who had fled to escape such a fate.

This all meant that the family ties, traditions and allegiances that had caused prior political friction and had led in some way to the Peisistraid tyrannies had been broken up and converted into early classical style of politics

2) Art & Architecture

The art and architecture of the Archaic Period also underwent various overhauls, the earlier geometric style was replaced with an orientalizing style, which in turn was replaced by black figure pottery

3) Panhellenic Games

It was during the Archaic period that the four major panhellenic games of Greece were founded. In 776 BCE the Olympic games were traditionally begun by Hercules and Pelops and their influence can be seen in the sculptural decoration of the classical Temple of Zeus there,

whilst at Delphi athletic games had taken place from c. 586 BCE, the home of the Pythian games, and the panhellenic Isthmian games were founded at Corinth c. 581 BCE. Which in turn replaced by Classical Style of games

4) Alphabet & Literature

From Homer and Hesiod, through to Pindar and Aeschylus, the Archaic Period underwent a vast development in the field of Greek literature, and language too, with the first Greek alphabet being developed.

The end of the Archaic period also had a literature that is just as influential, less well known perhaps, but it set the stage for the later classical tragedians and comedians.

5) Persian Wars

After the duration when there were loses in these wars, the sacking of the Athenian acropolis and Agora, the death of Leonidas, and in the end, the freedom of the Ionic tributaries to Athens as the Delian League soon became the Athenian League.

The change being that in the Archaic period there was war with Persia, in the Classical period and adopted new diplomacy as per today's political environment.

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