CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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It entered the Dark Ages
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It entered the Hellenic Period
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It entered the Metal Age
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It entered the Historic Period
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Detailed explanation-1: -This period is called the Dark Age because the palaces that ruled the Mycenaean age collapsed, and with them fell civilization in mainland Greece. Writing, fine art, massive architecture, trade, and luxury goods disappear from mainland Greece. But Athens survived the fall of the Mycenaeans.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Dorians swept away the last of the declining Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations of southern Greece and plunged the region into a dark age out of which the Greek city-states began to emerge almost three centuries later.
Detailed explanation-3: -First, about 1100 bce the Dorian invasions brought speakers of West Greek southward, then into the Peloponnese, and finally into the Aegean. Some pre-Dorian Greek populations were expelled from their homes and emigrated eastward to the west coast of Anatolia and to Cyprus.
Detailed explanation-4: -During their reign in Greece, the art of writing was lost. There were no written records for 400 years. History was passed on by oral tradition. For this reason, historians often refer to the age of the Dorians as the “dark age” of Greece.