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Dark Age Greece

Dark Age Greece. 1150-700 BC. Part 1: 1150-900. Collapse of Bronze age peoples across the Eastern Mediterranean (Myceneans) Population decrease Fortified cities abandoned Strong government structures disappeared Loss of written inscriptions

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Dark Age Greece

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  1. Dark Age Greece 1150-700 BC

  2. Part 1: 1150-900 • Collapse of Bronze age peoples across the Eastern Mediterranean (Myceneans) • Population decrease • Fortified cities abandoned • Strong government structures disappeared • Loss of written inscriptions • Art on vases become simplistic and geometric

  3. Not All Lost … • Still farming, pottery, weaving, metal working, etc but on a smaller level • Some trade still existed • People continued to speak Greek and pass down oral stories • Some technological innovations: • Potters wheel • Geometric compass • Iron learned from the East

  4. Expansion • Ionian Migration • 1050-950 • Ionians migrated from mainland Greece to Anatolian Coast (Turkey)

  5. Geometric Period • Geometric designs on pottery • Becomes more elaborate over time • Eventually incorporates living creatures (birds, horses) • Human figures appear around 750

  6. Oral Tradition • Kept myths and legends going throughout the Dark Ages even without a writing system • Homer and Hesiod • Written down between 750-700 BC

  7. Homer’s Age of Heroes • Iliad and the Odyssey • Not a real historical period • Combined memories of the bronze age with culture of dark ages • Can use as evidence for Dark Age Culture • Believed to be real by the Greeks • Heroes were models of good and bad behavior • Used to teach - didactic

  8. Hesiod • Didactic Poetry • “Works and Days” • Lessons for daily life: man’s Ultimate purpose in life is to work, and if he is willing to work, he will get by • Agrarian in theme • Honest labor, against idleness • Addressed to his brother

  9. Religion • Systematized during the Dark Ages by oral poetry • Homer’s gods in the Odyssey become the gods of the Greeks • Hesiod’s “Theogony” • Creation myth, secession story • Gaia and Uranus gave birth to the Titans (Kronos) • Kronos and Rhea have Zeus and Olympian gods who take over

  10. Recovery (900-750) • Material progress: gold jewelry, iron, bronze • Grave goods indicating increase in wealth • No major changes in building style • First freestanding temple built around 800 • Olympics thought to have begun in 776 BC • New writing system • Phoenicians

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