LESSON 4.4 What was the Greek ‘Dark Age’?
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this lesson you should be able to: • identify Greece’s physical environment • explain how it impacted its civilisation from 1150 BCE to 490 BCE.
Tune in Pottery and other works of art can be powerful sources to help us better understand history. Examine SOURCE1 .
SOURCE1 Mycenaean pottery showing hoplites
1. Is this piece of pottery considered a primary or secondary source? Why? 2. Discuss the elements of this source that suggest what hoplites were. 3. Consider how accurate you think these images are. 4. Share your thoughts with your class.
4.4.1 The inþuence of geography Mycenaean kings ruled southern Greece from 1600 BCE to 1200 BCE. After 1200 BCE, their culture collapsed, leading to the Greek ‘Dark Age’, which lasted almost 400 years. We know little about ancient Greece from 1150 BCE until the Greek alphabet was developed around 800 BCE. The landscape, climate and resources shaped Greek civilisation. As shown in SOURCE2 , 75 per cent of Greece is mountainous, so settlements were isolated, and only 20 per cent of land could be farmed.
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