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Chapter Two (11131 words) |
 | By 479 BCE the Persians* are on the run and the Greeks have retaken the first parts of their Asia Minor* colonies. |
| In 477 BCE The Confederacy of Delos* is founded by the Athenians to cope with all aggression. |
| In 499 BCE the contest* for tragic actors is instituted and they begin to get some of the glory that had gone only to the playwright. |
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Smyrna - Biocrawler (1676 words) |
| Strangers or refugees from the Ionian city of Colophon settled in the city and finally (traditionally in 688 BCE) by an uprising Smyrna passed into their hands and became the thirteenth of the Ionian city-states. |
| A strong fortress, the ruins of whose ancient and massive walls are still imposing, on a hill in the pass between Smyrna and Nymphi, was probably built by the Smyrnaean Ionians to command the valley of Nymphi. |
| Finally, Alyattes III (609–560 BCE) conquered the city and sacked it, and though Smyrna did not cease to exist, the Greek life and political unity were destroyed, and the polis was reorganized on the village system. |
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