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| | Greek Dark Ages |
 | | Most of our historical knowledge of the Greek Dark Ages has to be gleaned from archaeological finds and later literary myths that relate to the period. | | | The Dorian invasion corresponded with the start of the Iron Age in Greece, but despite the introduction of this superior metal, culture as a whole declined in Greece as a result of the Dorian invasion. | | | The later Greeks came to know this period as a Heroic Age. |
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http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/WestCivI/greek.htm
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| | The Polis |
| | The Greeks believed that the tyrants were illegitimate usurpers of political power; they seem, however, to have had in many cases popular support. | | | The tribal or clan units of the dark ages slowly grew into larger political units at the end of this period; beginning around 800 BC, trade began to dramatically accelerate between the peoples of Greece. | | | Even though the powers of the oligarchs were diffused among a group (which could be surprisingly large), the power of the oligarchy could be remarkably totalitarian, since many of the members of the oligarchy were drawn from the same class and had the same interests. |
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http://www.sad17.k12.me.us/teachers/bburns/com/units/government/polis.htm
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| | The Myceneans |
| | Later Greeks believed this to be the case: in Greek history and legend, the Dorians were a barbaric northern tribe of Greeks who rushed down into Greece and wrested control over the area. | | | Many Greeks in this period took to the sea and migrated to the islands in the Aegean; according to Greek history, they were soon followed by the Dorians. | | | Also called, the Greek Middle Ages, this period may have been precipitated by migrations and invasions of a people speaking a dialect of Greek, the Dorians. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MINOA/DARKAGES.HTM
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| | Archaic Age and the Polis, Univ. of Sask. |
| | Many of the poleis involved in these early efforts at colonization were cities that, in the classical period, were relatively obscure — an indication of just how drastically the economic and political changes entailed in the transition from Dark Age to Archaic Greece affected the fortunes of the various poleis. | | | In general, Alcaeus' career reveals something of the intense competition among the nobility to gain power amid the political and social chaos that attended the rise of the city state. | | | In Attica and Euboea, however, we find a form of Greek known as Attic, yet another descendant of the Greek of the Bronze Age, which shows no Doric influence. |
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http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/CourseNotes/Polis.html
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| | Discoverers Web: Greece |
| | One name is still known from this period: Colaeus, a Greek trader of around 630 BC, got in a storm on a voyage to Egypt, and was blown all across the Mediterranean to the Pillars of Hercules (the Greek name for the Straits of Gibraltar). | | | When Cyrus was beaten, the Greeks had to find their way back home again, through mostly unknown country. | | | Although no report of these voyages remains, they did leave their impression in Greek mythology. |
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http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/greece.html
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Dark Ages |
| | Just as Petrarch's writing was not an attack on Christianity per se—in addition to his humanism he was deeply occupied with the search for God—neither of course was this an attack on Christianity, but the opposite: a drive to restore what Protestants saw as a "purer" Christianity. | | | The dwellers in the Middle Ages would not have recognized it. | | | Why did Petrarch call it an age of darkness? |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/D/DA/DAR/Dark_Ages
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| | MonkeyFilter The Greek Dark Age |
| | The European Dark Ages are surprisingly well documented (for an era of chaos and upheaval) by historians such as the Venerable Bede. | | | My musings weren't so much on the causes though, more idle speculation as to how it would look to the future, viewed through the same number of years as the Greeks are to us, now. | | | Spoiler alert: Medusa, the author found substantial evidence that indicates Krakatoa blew up in 535 AD, which threw tons of dust in the air, which cooled the climate globally, which caused crops to fail and plague bacteria to multiply, which caused the social and political upheaval that we know as the Dark Ages. |
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http://monkeyfilter.com/link.php/6511
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| | Athens and Sparta |
| | Aristotle called the government of Sparta a "mixed constitution"; for the small minority of ruling Spartans, it was a democracy, but for the great mass of subjected people it was an oligarchy. | | | Sparta had not joined the other Greek cities in trade and colonization but had expanded instead by conquering and enslaving its neighbors. | | | After dissatisfaction with democratic government be-came widespread in the fourth century B.C., many of the city-states returned either to oligarchy or to one-man rule. |
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http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/NotesathensSparta.htm
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| | Why no Literary Relics from Five Centuries? |
| | The view that all writing during the Dark Ages was on perishable materials, none of which was found, is thus rather difficult to uphold. | | | It is incredible that a people as intelligent as the Greeks should have forgotten how to read and write once they had learned how to do so. | | | Alan J. Wace challenged this view, and in his preface to Ventris’ and Chadwick’s Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956) wrote that future discoveries and study would “undoubtedly make clear” whether the Dark Age was really dark: |
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http://www.varchive.org/dag/relit.htm
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| | Greece 1, History 101 Sect. 50 |
| | From their Bronze Age beginnings on the Island of Crete and the mainland, this civilization would eventually spread throughout the region of the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas and pushing up through the Dardanelles to the region of the Black sea. | | | So recent theorists have come up with a different theory: the religious and social life of the Minoans appear to have been matriarchal in nature, and theorists note that matriarchal society tends to be less military than patriarchal civilizations. | | | Again, the king was not as central to the dark ages government than in earlier periods of Greek history. |
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http://www.wpunj.edu/irt/courses/hist101-50/f-greek1.htm
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| | Ancient Greece |
| | Greece in the Archaic Age: Political Structure 750 - 499 BCE | | | Ancient Greek Politics between 515 and 450 B.C | | | The Ancient Greek World - The Drinking Party |
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http://home.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientGreece.html
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| | Greek Culture - Ancient Roman Empire Forums |
| | Even other Greeks could not ignore this fact, and the Spartans were always pariahs for it. | | | Later, Orthodox Christianity would be the central pillar of the Byzantine Empire. | | | This attitude was part of the Greek self-mythos. |
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http://www.unrv.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t2054.html
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| | The Greeks were late in coming to chariots, which people such as the Hittites had already mastered. | | | The Mycenaeans made extensive use of bronze and you'll notice the warriors in the Iliad wear and fight with bronze all the time. | | | We call it the Dark Age because the massive cities of the previous centuries are destroyed or abandoned. |
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http://home.att.net/~a.a.major/darkage.htm
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| | The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined? |
| | Indeed, some 40 cities throughout North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia are thought to have been devastated, or even disappeared, about the same time in a series of catastrophes. | | | Explanations in terms of global catastrophes make sense only to those who don't know history outside of the all-Western-Europe plus disjointed politically correct 'multicultural' window dressing version taught in American schools. | | | The twelfth century BC is associated with the "Greek Dark Ages", the end of the Hittite civilisation in the Near East, the end of Bronze Age Israel, and the end of the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in China. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/756422/posts
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| | Dark Age Greece - History for Kids! |
| | More controversial; Tandy argues that Greek colonies were founded by traders, not because there were too many people living in Greece. | | | Because Greece was in such bad shape during the Dark Ages, and could not defend herself, it also seems that some of their neighbors to the north invaded Greece and began living in some of the Greek cities. | | | Some historians think that some Greeks, or people like them, may have moved to Israel, where they were called the Philistines. |
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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/history/darkages.htm
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| | Raving about Homer on Yub.com - http://www.yub.com/raves/?raveID=4905 |
| | This unification, whether it was myth or not, gave the later Greeks a sense of national or cultural identity, despite the fact that their governments were small, disunified city-states. | | | The Iliad is the story of a brief event in the ninth year of the war (which the Greeks claim lasted ten years); the great hero Achilles is offended when the leader of the Greeks, Agamemnon, takes a slave girl Achilles has been awarded. | | | This war, however, fired the imaginations of the Greeks and became the defining cultural moment in their history. |
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http://www.yub.com/raves?raveID=4905
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| | Greek Poleis |
| | Plato in establishing his ideal republic (Plato, The Republic) set the population at 3020 citizens and Aristotle (Aristotle, Politics) wrote that every citizen should know every other citizen on sight. | | | Greek states therefore composed a myriad of different political, social, economic, and cultural enities. | | | At the end of the Greek Dark Ages the polis was already a dominant institution in parts of the Greek world. |
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http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/AncGreece/thepolis.htm
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| | AI Mediterranean - The Dark Ages |
| | This thread is for discussion of the period known as the Greek Dark Ages, the period following the Mycanaean empire's collapse under invasion from the north and subsquent loss of many civilising elements. | | | was it truely a Dark Age in Greek history? | | | The Greek Dark Ages 1100-850 BC Post Description: |
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http://www.antiquatedideas.com/cgi-antiquatedideas/themed/topic.cgi?forum=17&topic=10
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| | The Greek Dark Ages |
| | Chapter 12 ‘Homer and the Dark Age: Myth or Memory ?’ in K.A. and Diana Wardle, Cities of Legend: The Mycenaean World. | | | Whitley Style and Society in Dark Age Greece | | | V.R. d'A Desborough The Greek Dark Ages (GDA) |
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http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/aha/kaw/DarkAges/biblio.htm
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| | Putting the Dark into the Dark Age |
| | Frank Delaney, A Walk in the Dark Ages (Collins, 1988) | | | Hugh Trevor Roper, The Rise of Christianity (Thames and Hudson, 1965) | | | The Christian priests lead the hungry mob against the temple of goddess Demeter in Eleusis and try to lynch the hierophants Nestorius and Priskus. |
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http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/dark-age.htm
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| | Ancient Greece |
| | For extensive sites, drop by my Myth, Legend, Folklore, Ghosts page! | | | The Ancient Greek World: Religion - Votives and Sacrifice | | | Barbarians and Bureaucrats: Minoa, Mycenae, and the Greek Dark Ages - Contents |
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http://www.teacheroz.com/greeks.html
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| | ANCIENT GREEK CIVILIZATION |
| | Bureaucrats and Barbarians: Minoans, Myceneans, and the Greek Dark Ages | | | Barbarians and Bureaucrats: Minoa, Mycenae, and the Greek Dark Ages | | | The Greek and Roman Cities of Western Turkey |
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http://members.tripod.com/~edpa/history/greece.htm
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| | Ancient Greek Architecture - History for Kids! |
| | Ancient Greek Homes (People in the Past Series-Greece), by Haydn Middleton (2002). | | | About 400 AD, the Greeks convert to Christianity, and begin to build churches and monasteries. | | | But at the end of the Dark Ages, with the beginning of the Iron Age and the Archaic period in Greece, we see a new type of building: the temple for the gods. |
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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/greekarch.htm
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| | Greek Dark Ages |
| | The great trading empire which had begun with the Minoans, and was inherited by the Myceneans, was destroyed in the Dark Ages. | | | The downfall of the Mycenean age, came swiftly and was due to multiple causes. | | | In addition, many of the elements left from Mycenean culture were destroyed and writing, which had been so important during the Mycenean, was not practiced. |
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http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/pre-greece/greekdarkages.html
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| | Architecture |
| | Soon the Greeks begin to build the temples from limestone. | | | By the end of the Dark Ages the Greeks begin to build temples to the gods. | | | They probably got the idea from the Egyptians, who had been building temples for thousands of years. |
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http://www.mce.k12tn.net/ancient_greece/architecture.htm
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| | Homer's Odyssey (Myth-Folklore Online) |
| | After the Greek "Dark Ages," Mycene was the center of Greek culture. | | | The Greek "Dark Ages" lasted from around 800 BCE to 500 BCE. | | | The "archaic" period of Greek culture lasted from around 800 BCE to 500 BCE. |
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http://www.mythfolklore.net/3043mythfolklore/reading/odyssey/backgroundquiz.htm
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| | mmc 2265 -- Lecture 4 |
| | Greeks were writing as early as 1100 BC Evidence: Direction of early writing unstable, later writing R>L | | | 22 Phoenician consonants became Greek vowels and consonants | | | The period following the end of Mycenaean and prior to the rise of classical Greeks (~800 BC) is commonly referred to as the Greek Dark Ages |
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http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/blake/mmc2265/lecture6.htm
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| | Ancient Greek Civilizations |
| | - (Transition from dark ages to the Archaic.) |
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http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/index.shtml
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| | Freewalt.com - Greco-Roman History - Greek Tragedy - Oedipus |
| | Jocasta rejoices—surely this is proof that the prophecy Oedipus heard from the oracle is worthless. | | | Oedipus finds out from a messenger that Polybus, king of Corinth, the father who raised Oedipus, has died of old age. | | | King Laius and Queen Jocasta ruled the Greek city of Thebes. |
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http://www.freewalt.com/socialstudies/history/world/grecoroman/greeks/oedipus.htm
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| | ANISTORITON: Internet Messages |
| | Reply-To: History of the Ancient Mediterranean To: ANCIEN-L@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU Subject: Re: Greek dark ages? | | | All of this however is probably subtle quibbling next to associating Ramasses II with Shishank, and here of all places Peter James seems to hinge his new chronology. | | | First of all, the date of the Trojan War is disputed but 1200 to 1190 seems about right. |
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http://www.anistor.co.hol.gr/english/enback/m991.htm
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| | Cretan Excavation Sheds New Light On Dark Ages Of Greek History |
| | Three burials — including the funeral pyre of a warrior and his wife, beside whom a young man had been put to death by beheading — are displayed as they were found, in a room painted pomegranate red for Persephone, lady of the underworld. | | | On a narrow spur under the shadow of Mount Ida in central Crete, archaeologists for the past 20 years have been excavating a town that flourished from the Dark Ages of Greece& early history until Medieval times. | | | Cretan Excavation Sheds New Light On Dark Ages Of Greek History |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1296435/posts
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| | GREEK HISTORY TIMELINE |
| | This list covers the Archaic (pre-800BC) and Classical (800- 146BC) periods in Greek History. | | | Nobles assumed control of Athenian government through the Council of the Areopagus | | | Third war between the Romans and Macedonian Greeks |
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http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his101/TIMELINE/T-GREEK.HTM
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| | Dark Ages |
| | This is the entrance to the multiverse called Dark Ages. | | | It is called such because the realms that you will encounter will have many mysteries of magic even in a technological setting. |
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http://www.geocities.com/sheyachan
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| | Untitled Document |
| | Bronze Age - 3,500 to 1,200 B.C. Mesopotamia / Fertile Crescent |
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| | clas130timeline |
| | c.1100-900 After destruction of Greek cities, "Dark Ages" | | | 362 Battle of Mantineia: general stalemate, as Greek poleis wear each other out | | | 336-323 Campaigns of Alexander the Great: Greek soldiers reach India |
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http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Classics/clas130timeline.htm
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| | The Greek Dark Ages |
| | have their own cultural sequences, which impinge on or are influenced by southern Greek ideas especially from Euboea and Attica |
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