CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Greeks
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Hellenes
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Minoans
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Phoenecians
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Detailed explanation-1: -Greek legend asserts that the Dorians took possession of the Peloponnesus in an event called the Return of the Heracleidae (Ancient Greek: ). Nineteenth-century Classical scholars saw in the legend a possibly real event they termed the Dorian invasion.
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: -The sudden and widespread decline of the Mycenaean culture ushered in by the Dorian invasion led to the Greek Dark Ages.
Detailed explanation-4: -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”.