CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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People lived in poverty.
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Farmers grew only enough food for themselves and family.
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Trade slowed down
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The Chaldeans invaded the Greek Mainland
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Notable events from this period include the occurrence of the first Olympics in 776, and the writing of the Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Detailed explanation-3: -Other changes recorded towards the end of the Dark Age are: recovery of literacy (Greek alphabet) after the abandonment of the Mycenaean Linear B script, increasing contacts with regions outside the Aegean, and the emergence of a new and successful form of political institution (the early poleis).
Detailed explanation-4: -During the Dark Ages, Greece was most likely divided into independent regions according to kinship groups, and the oikoi, or households. Toward the end of the Greek Dark Ages, communities began to develop that were governed by elite groups of aristocrats, as opposed to singular kings or chieftains of earlier periods.