

These developments ushered in the period of Archaic Greece (800–480 BC). Led to the rise of the city-states ( Poleis).

The Greek 'Dark Ages' drew to an end as a significant increase in population allowed urbanized culture to be restored, which Warfare occurred throughout the history of Ancient Greece, from the Greek Dark Ages onward. 330 BC depicting a soldier in combat, holding his weapon above his head as he prepares to strike a fallen enemy the relief may have been part of an official Athenian state memorial from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek collection.
