Pericles Funeral Oration
Context:
I- 800-600 BCE- The Archaic Age
A- Foreign Trade
1- the Phonecians renewed the old trade contacts
B- Development of Writing
1- the Phonecians taught the Greeks how to apply their alphabet writing system to the spoken language of Greece
2- Books, plays, epics start to become written
C- Establishment of City-States
1- because of rising populations and need for fertile land
D- New Military Technology
1- the hoplite was a heavily armed infantry
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