History and Culture
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History of Greece: Bronze Age
Read more: History of Greece: Bronze AgeMinoan, Cycladic, and Helladic Cultures The Bronze Age, a period that lasted roughly three thousand years, saw major advances in social, economic, and technological advances that made Greece the hub of activity in the Mediterranean. Historians have classified…
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History of Greece: Mycenaean Greece
Read more: History of Greece: Mycenaean GreeceMycenaean is the civilization that dominated mainland Greece, the Aegean islands, and the shores of Asia Minor during the late Bronze Age era (circa 1600-1100 BCE). The Mycenaean Era occupies the tail end of the Helladic Civilization, which…
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History of Greece: The Dark Ages
Read more: History of Greece: The Dark AgesEra Description The extensive damage done to the Mycenaean civilization at the end of the second millennia took three hundred years to reverse. We call this period “the Dark Ages” partly because the people of Greece fell into…
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History of Greece: Archaic Era
Read more: History of Greece: Archaic EraThe next period after the Dark Ages is described as Archaic and lasted for about two hundred years from (700 – 480 BCE). Colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Coasts Greek city-states of the Archaic epoch spread throughout the…
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History of Greece: Classical Greece
Read more: History of Greece: Classical GreeceThe flurry of development and expansion of the Archaic Era was followed by the period of maturity we came to know as “Classical Greece”. Athens and Sparta Between 480 and until 323 BCE Athens and Sparta dominated the…
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History of Greece: Hellenistic Period
Read more: History of Greece: Hellenistic PeriodA Cosmopolitan Era The Hellenistic Age (323-31 BCE) marks the transformation of Greek society from the localized and introverted city-states to an open, cosmopolitan, and at times exuberant culture that permeated the entire eastern Mediterranean, and Southwest Asia.…
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Minoan Culture
Read more: Minoan CultureLanguage The Phaistos Disk is the earliest, and only script of its kind we have from the Minoans. It is dated to 1700 BCE and resembles Egyptian hieroglyphs. Around the same time, or soon after, a syllable based script…
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History of Minoan Crete
Read more: History of Minoan CreteThe Minoans (c. 3500 – 1100 BCE) had developed significant naval power and for many centuries lived in contact with all the major civilizations of the time. With their powerful navy they flourished in the island of Crete…
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Olympic Games History
Read more: Olympic Games HistoryFor the ancient Greeks, the Olympic games existed since mythical times, but no definitive time of their inauguration can be identified with any certainty. The first Olympiad was held in 776 BCE, and this is the year that…
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History of Ancient Olympia
Read more: History of Ancient OlympiaThe sanctuary at Olympia (Ολυμπία) is positioned in a serene and fertile valley between the Alpheios and the Kladeos rivers in western Peloponnese, in Elis. In antiquity it was the host of the Olympic games for a thousand…