Greek Dark Ages Or Dark Age Greece: 1100 BCE-900 BCE
4.0: Greek Dark Ages or (Dark Age Greece) circa 1100 BCE - 900 BCE.
URING THE START OF THIS HISTORICAL PERIOD IN CIRCA 1100 BCE, IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE MYCENAEAN GREEK CIVILISATION WENT THROUGH A PERIOD OF CONSIDERABLE TURMOIL. The various Mycenaean cities warred one another and many of these cities were destroyed and left abandoned and in ruins for many decades if not centuries. The large death toll from this fighting caused the population to decrease severely. It is believed that this state of war and the severe famines that accompanied it were caused by a combination of overpopulation and natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and their large devastating ash clouds that would cover and destroy various large areas of the region’s …show more content…
It is ironic that the Mycenaean’s high population growth stemming from their success as a flourishing and rich civilisation, would eventually contribute, along with other factors, to cause disaster for them in the form of overpopulation which went hand in hand with the other problems during the situation of that time.
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During the Greek Dark Ages, the Greeks fleeing all the turmoil in Greece sailed by sea to the settlements that had been established on the coastlines of Southern Italy, Eastern Sicily and Western Asia Minor, turning them into colonies. These new lands were more fertile than mainland Greece and had much more wide open space as they were less mountainous and hilly than Greece, or in some cases they had large fertile mountain plateaus that were also favourable to settle in. This allowed the population to again increase and recover by the end of the Greek Dark Ages. One theory is that when the Mycenaean Civilisation decayed and the Greek Dark Ages began, the Greeks in the various Mycenaean settlements began to diffuse into three major cultural groups of Greeks or into the ‘three tribes’ as many know
URING THE START OF THIS HISTORICAL PERIOD IN CIRCA 1100 BCE, IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE MYCENAEAN GREEK CIVILISATION WENT THROUGH A PERIOD OF CONSIDERABLE TURMOIL. The various Mycenaean cities warred one another and many of these cities were destroyed and left abandoned and in ruins for many decades if not centuries. The large death toll from this fighting caused the population to decrease severely. It is believed that this state of war and the severe famines that accompanied it were caused by a combination of overpopulation and natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and their large devastating ash clouds that would cover and destroy various large areas of the region’s …show more content…
It is ironic that the Mycenaean’s high population growth stemming from their success as a flourishing and rich civilisation, would eventually contribute, along with other factors, to cause disaster for them in the form of overpopulation which went hand in hand with the other problems during the situation of that time.
4.1:
During the Greek Dark Ages, the Greeks fleeing all the turmoil in Greece sailed by sea to the settlements that had been established on the coastlines of Southern Italy, Eastern Sicily and Western Asia Minor, turning them into colonies. These new lands were more fertile than mainland Greece and had much more wide open space as they were less mountainous and hilly than Greece, or in some cases they had large fertile mountain plateaus that were also favourable to settle in. This allowed the population to again increase and recover by the end of the Greek Dark Ages. One theory is that when the Mycenaean Civilisation decayed and the Greek Dark Ages began, the Greeks in the various Mycenaean settlements began to diffuse into three major cultural groups of Greeks or into the ‘three tribes’ as many know