CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Late Bronze Age Collapse, Mycenaean Greece, Balkans

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 1A03
• Professor: Michele George

Document Summary

The mycenaean kingdoms collapse c. 1200-1180 bc. Changes: new technology: iron tools (dominates over bronze, simpler metal to use and find than bronze, practice of cremation developed (inhumation used in greece up to this point) 1200 bc collapse of m(cid:455)(cid:272)e(cid:374)aea(cid:374) hege(cid:373)o(cid:374)(cid:455), (cid:271)egi(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of period k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as (cid:862)dark ages(cid:863) (cid:272). (cid:1005)(cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)- Dorian invasion (from balkan peninsula) (cid:858) (cid:455)ste(cid:373)s (cid:272)ollapse(cid:859) (cid:858)doria(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:448)asio(cid:374)(cid:859) Invaders from the north, whom later greeks, in the 5th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455) bc, (cid:272)alled doria(cid:374)s; he(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:858)doria(cid:374) Came from the north, & brought with them a new dialect of greek called dorian: this dialect spoken in several parts of greece, on crete & in the area of sparta, mycenaean strongholds. This theory is old fashioned, but still held by some historians (but not by archaeologists) There is no evidence of newcomers, or new settlement, i. e. , no new pottery. Rather than newcomers who bring in new goods & a new way of life, there is a depopulation of.