CLA 2323 Quiz: CLA 2323 - Timeline

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: David Sacks

Document Summary

Historial significance arrival of the earliest greek speakers into the land of greece they likely invade overland from the north the arrival of the greeks is part of a larger proliferation of indo-european speaking. 1900 - 1490 b. c people across eurasia (starting from a northern or eastern corner of the black sea be- fore 4000 b. c) 1220 b. c these people are not greek their cultured, technologically advanced society provides a model for the early. 1200 - 750 b. c destruction of all mycenaean cities in close succession the dark age of greece modern archaeology reveals signs of widespread destruction and economic de- pression the greeks survived as people but in reduced material circumstances. 1100 - 500 b. c they lacked knowledge of writing there was a gradual revival of greek culture and trade in 900 - 750 b. c. Greek = aoidoi, song singers, or rhapsoidoi, song stitchers the bards maintain a greek national poetry of unwritten traditional stories which.