CLAA04H3 Lecture Notes - Archaic Greece, Basileus, Dreros
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Palaces destroyed and not rebuilt, resulting in a decline in population: however, may not be actually decline because, instead of palaces, villages became the way of life. So it may not be decline but simply spread out due to loss of city centers. Loss of literacy: very few people actually knew how to read linear b so it could not be taught to next generations. Political fragmentation: titles for leaders changed from wanax to basileus. Loss of trade routes: greece had to switch from bronze to iron because trade routes ended. Could no longer import tin to make bronze: end of bronze age, beginning of iron age. The rise of the polis: wide variety of meanings for polis". 2. city and the outlying territory (called chora) Citizen participation (male only; free only; landowning; military service) 3 branches of government: magistrates (executive) Powers and term limited by law (dreros: council (boule, gerousia)
