HISTORY 1M03 Lecture 17: Greek Dark Age
7 Jan 2018
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By the end of the twelfth century bce, the mycenaean palaces were gone and conditions in. Greece had changed dramatically, with very significant depopulation, decline in material standards of living, and a regression to much simpler forms of life and social organization. Writing appears to have been forgotten, and the material simplicity of conditions means that little archaeological evidence survives. People lived in simple, one-room mud brick houses. There were no palaces, temples, or other monumental buildings. Owing to this lack of evidence, this period - form c. 1150- c, 750- is obscure to us, and hence has been labelled the dark age". In the eleventh century, greece was for the most part a world of isolated villages. Typically a community would number around 15 families (around 100 people); the smallest communities might number only 15 people. In some few places, generally where there had been major.
