ACS 103 Lecture : CLCV notes 26.09.12.docx
4 Mar 2013
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The rulers of the city controlled people in the surrounding countryside- they took their produce and redistributed it redistributive economy. The model of the redistributive economy may have come form the meospotamian people. However, the greek civ was different from the meso civ- they were individualistic an d took religion very lightly- they had a casual relationship with their deities- unlike the near. Mycenaean cities disappeared during the dark ages. Islands- characteristics of myceaean civ gone and forgotten. C 6th bce- greece emerged form the dark ages- the cities were very different though. We don"t know how they came about bcz it did so uring the dark ages and there are no written records of its development. All the theories about how it developed are hypothetical. A small town with little but sufficient land to support the population except for polis on the coast which substituted agriculture for fishing.
