Ionian Confederacy Forms
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Government and Politics, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Middle Eastern History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Turkey, Crete, Greece (ancient)
- Date: c. 1000-900
Article abstract: The Ionian confederacy brought together large settlements of Ionian Greeks who were responsible for the birth of Greek epic poetry, history writing, and natural philosophy.
Summary of Event
The central portion of the west coast of Anatolia has had a long and varied history. In the first half of the second millennium b.c.e., Minoan merchants from Crete established trading posts throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. Archaeologists have found Minoan-type pottery on the west central coast of Anatolia in an area that would later...
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