WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -By 750 B.C., many descendants of the people who ran away returned to the Greek mainland; and they brought new ideas, crafts, and skills. These people were called the Hellenes, and they grew a surplus of food, which they traded with neighboring people, such as the Egyptians and Phoenicians.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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. The impressive towns of the Mycenaeans were replaced with small, poor villages.

Detailed explanation-5: -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”.