HIS102Y1 Chapter 5: Chapter 5.doc
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Chapter five: the greeks and the wider world. A dark age in aegean life and culture (1200 800 b. c. e) Aegeans inhabited a world surrounded by mountains made overland travel difficult. Rivers and plains allowed limited agriculture climate was dry irrigation impossible. Sea dotted with multiple islands sailing allowed inhabitants to maintain contacts. Relied heavily on trade and migration for their needs. From 1200 to 800 b. c. e. was the aegean dark age. People deserted large settlements and survived in small communities of farmers and herders. Aegean people abandoned rural life around 800 bce. Historians call this new era in aegean history the archaic period (c. 800 500 bce. In the 8th century bce, population of greece skyrocketed could not tolerate dry climate. Period of greek colonization spanned more than 2 centuries migrants fanned in all directions. During period of expansion, greeks competed with phoenicians, who had colonized large parts of the western mediterranean colonization strengthened greek connections with larger world.
