CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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Mycenaeans.
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Minoans.
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Hellenes.
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Phoenicians.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Greek tradition, the Dorians were thought to have gained their name from Doris, a small district in central Greece. According to this tradition, the sons of Heracles, the Heraclidae, were driven from their homeland in the Peloponnese by Eurystheus of Mycenae.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Hellenes By 750 B.C., many descendents of the people who ran away returned to the Greek mainland. Small independent communities developed under local leaders who became kings.
Detailed explanation-3: -Located on the Peloponnesus Peninsula in southern Greece, the people living in the city-state of Sparta were known as Spartans and were descendants of the Dorians. Sparta invaded neighboring city-states and enslaved the local people, calling these laborers helots-a Greek word meaning “capture”.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Dorians originated in northern and northwestern Greece near Macedonia and Epirus. Circa 1100 BCE, they made their way into central Greece before they moved south to the Peloponnese and some of the Aegean islands.