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History 104. The End of the Dark Ages. The End of the Dark Ages. Many factors culminate in a new period: Increasing population Why?. The End of the Dark Ages. Shift to agriculture, movement away from pastoral wealth. Some dates and periods (Based on Attic vase painting styles).
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History 104 The End of the Dark Ages
The End of the Dark Ages • Many factors culminate in a new period: • Increasing population • Why?
The End of the Dark Ages • Shift to agriculture, movement away from pastoral wealth
Some dates and periods(Based on Attic vase painting styles) • Protogeometric: 1050-900 • Early and Middle Geometric: 900-750 • Late Geometric: 750-700 • Takeaway: slow beginnings, rapid development at end
The End of the Dark Ages • More extensive foreign trade • partially out of necessity • Early trading posts: Al Mina (800), Pithekoussai (750)
Trade • Imported: metal, luxury goods, dyes • Exported: pottery, metalwork, woolen goods
The End of the Dark Ages • New cultural and artistic models • due to foreign contact • More sophisticated practices at home.
Developments of late Dark Ages • Writing (ca. 750-720) • Trade • Homeric epic
“Nestor’s Cup” • “I am the drinking cup of Nestor, good to drink from. Whoever drinks this cup, immediately the desire of beautiful-crowned Aphrodite will seize him.” • ca. 750, Pithekoussai
Late Dark Age Developments, cont. • Monumental building (ca. 800) • Public religious structures
Late Dark Age Developments, cont. • “Panhellenic” festivals/competitions • Colonization (Pithekoussai, ca. 750)
Late Dark Age Developments, cont. • Fortifications • Higher quality art; human figures, legendary scenes, “orientalizing” period (from ca. 730)
(l. neck of Eleusinian amphora, ca. 700)(r. neck of Mykonos pithos, ca. 700)
(l. Corinthian oinochoe, ca. 630)(r. Athenian loutrophoros, ca. 690)