006: Alphas Betas and the Polis

Send us a text Literacy brought the Greeks out of the Dark Ages, and the alphabet they adopted was the one used by the Phoenician Traders. To this day, we still use a variation of the Phoenician Alphabet. This is the time when the Greek cities grew into Citystates, which gave birth to places like Thebes, Athens, Corinth, and Sparta. The History of Modern Greece covers the events of the Greek People from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Greek War of Independence in 1821-1832, all the...