370 Dark Age Greece 1150-700BC

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370 Dark Age Greece 1150-700BC
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• Depopulation
• Degradation of culture
• Disappearance of Mycenaean elite
• Giant Hand

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• c. 1100
• Palaces in ruin
• Many towns as well
• No new monumental stone construction
• Writing all but forgotten
• Trade links broken
• No quality metalwork

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• 1150-900
• Sporadic incursions and movements of peoples
• 900-750
• Slow revival

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Sources

• Meager, but increase after 900
• Homeric poems-c. 750 BC
• Iliad
• Odyssey
• Hesiod-700 BC
• Theogony
• Works and Days

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• Archaeological
• Settlements
• Homes, buildings, and graves (mostly shaft)

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Pottery

• Submycenaean- c. 1100-1050 BC
• Protogeometric-c. 1050-900 BC
• Geometric-c. 900-700 BC

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Submycenaean
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Protogeometric
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Geometric
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Dipylon vase
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Nichoria
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Lefkandi
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