CIVILIZATION
GREEK
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Dark Age
|
|
|
Enlightenment
|
|
|
Golden Age
|
|
|
Middle Earth
|
Detailed explanation-1: -The Dark Age era begins with a catastrophic event: the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, when all major Mycenaean regional centres fell out of use after suffering a combination of destruction and abandonment.
Detailed explanation-2: -The reasons may be one or more of the following: natural disaster, overpopulation, internal social and political unrest, invasion from foreign tribes such as the Sea Peoples, and regional climate change.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-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.