HIST 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Diocletian, Mount Vesuvius, Antoninus Pius
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The term bronze age relates in part to the fact that bronze was a common material used in various implements in this period. This period is something of an arbitrary measure, with slightly differing dates. It is outside of this course, but it is a stepping stone to archaic greece. Again, the times are arbitrary, but this is a general timeframe. This is the dark ages because at the end of the. Bronze age, there was the bronze age catastrophe. One manifestation of this was loss of literacy; there were no written sources in this period. In terms of historical record keeping, this is a dark age" for greece then. When trying to reconstruct history in this period, we have to rely on non written evidence. Firstly, geometric refers to the type of pottery prevalent in greece in this time, characterized by geometric patterns.
