SYDE101 Lecture 3: MYCENAEAN COLLAPSE

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Systems Design Engineering
• Course: SYDE101
• Professor: Nicholas Maes

Document Summary

There are a number of possible causes, famine, soil erosion, earthquakes and (if legend is correct and a large expeditionary force fought about troy for 10 years) over- extension. In the face of growing weakness, another population moved into. To understand the dorians we have to back up a little. According to one theory, when the helladic branch of the indo-europeans invaded mainland. Greece c. 2000 bce, it left some of its numbers behind, up north (in the region of macedonia). This population, while related to the indo-europeans who invaded greece, spoke a different dialect, observed different festivals and had distinct cultural practises. They came to be called dorians and their arrival in greece (c. 1150) is referred to as the dorian invasion. These dorians took over the nw half of the greek mainland and just about all of the peloponnese. The former populations were either destroyed, absorbed or (in many cases) took to their heels.