HISA07H3 Chapter : Week 8 - HIS copy.docx
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5th century bce aka golden age of greece: periods: dark and archaic ages. Greeks recovered from the decline and fall of the mycenaean civilization. And created a complex & sophisticated civilization based on the political institution aka polis or city-state. Greece began the iron age with a period called the greek dark ages after the collapse of the mycenaean civilization. Most things from the mycenaean culture vanished: complex administrative & economic system, stone architecture, a trading economy, urbanization, sculpture, knowledge of writing. Only few materials remain in legends and myths of the mycenaean world but might just be exaggerations from the truth (cid:0) greek war against troy is an example. A greek legend tells us the story of the war-like northern greeks, the dorians who led an invasion 60 years after the fall of troy (1120 bce) Destroyed the mycenaean civilization and occupied the most fertile agricultural lands of southern greece.
