WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations were destroyed by new arrivals from Macedonia and Epirus. This new group of Greeks, called the Dorians, settled in the war ravaged lands and developed their civilization. The Dorians had a well-developed dialect and settled into communities based on their “tribes”.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fall of the Mycenaeans The Dorians from the north attack the Mycenaeans with their iron weapons. Around 1200 BC, we have evidence that the Mycenaeans increased the size of the walls around their cities.

Detailed explanation-4: -The various tribes on the Greek peninsula hated the Dorians, with good reason. The Dorians were cruel and brutal. But after 400 years of Dorian rule, it probably never occurred to the Dorians that the villagers might organize and revolt. After the Dorians conquered the Mycenaeans, Greece fell into a dark age.