HIST 3P03 Chapter 1: HIST 3P03 Ancient Greece Text pages 51-69 | Evernote Web
22 Nov 2016
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Mycenaean collapse in context: in the decades around 1200, the entire eastern mediterranean region was overwhelmed by turmoil in italy, sicily and adjacent islands. They were repelled, though at great cost it is commonly believed that mycenaean greeks were among the sea peoples. Mycenaean collapse: who, what, and why? the destructions and the subsequent collapse of the greek system of palaces were somehow connected to the catastrophes that plagued the eastern mediterranean at the same time. Archaeologists have discerned early signs of trouble around 1250: manufacture and exports of luxury goods appear to have tailed off, and the technical and artistic quality of ne pottery diminished; indications of a faltering economy perhaps. Sources for the dark age: historians call this period the dark age because of its archaeological obscurity the rich material record of the late bronze age turns nearly blank in the 11th and 10th centuries.
