WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT GREECE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What caused the Greek Dark Ages?
A
Wars and natural disasters
B
The Trojan War
C
The Trojan Horse
D
Homer did it
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ancient Greece had not known a natural disaster as devastating in more than 1, 000 years, when an exploding volcano destroyed much of the island of Thera, modern Santorini. The Helike catastrophe, some scholars speculate, may have inspired Plato’s story of Atlantis, a land that supposedly sank to the bottom of the sea.

Detailed explanation-2: -Description. The war between Greece and Turkey ended in 1922 in what Greeks call the Asia Minor catastrophe, a disaster greater than the fall of Constantinople in 1453, for it marked the end of Hellenism in the ancient heartland of Asia Minor.

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