HUMA 1100 Lecture- Sept 13 Greek Timeline Mycenaen Period (ca.1550-1000 B.C.) The Mycenaean Period, which is also referred to as the Late Bronze Age, witnessed the peak of Greek economic and social development. The writing system, which is called Linear B, was used during this time. Discovered in 1939, the palace of Mycenaean Kind Nestor was excavated by Carl Blegen and hundreds of tablet in the ancient Linear B script were found. Olive oil jugs and different types of vases were found in this picturesque place. In this period, the Trojan War occurred, but around 11100 Mycenaean culture startedto collapse and the Dark Age started in Greece. The Dark Age (1100-850 B.C.) This period is the transition from Bronze to Iron Age wih the Greel settlements throughout the Aegean Islands and the coast of Asia Minor. This was the time of social disorganization, depopulation, and economic failure. The Archaic Period (750-480 B.C.) The Greek culture began to recover from 750 to 480 B.C. in the Archaic Period, the time of growth and expansion, which was to last until the Persian wars in 490-480 B.C. A recognizable sense of national identity appeared in the eighth century B.C., perhaps first expressed un the founding of the Olympic Games in 776 B.C. It continued and was strengthened by waves of Greek colonists who set out to found Greek cities all over the coasts of the Mediterranean and Black seas. Coming into contact with foreign, unfamiliar, native populations, the colonists became increasingly aware of their common bons with those left behind on theGreek mainland, however great the local and tribal differences might have been within Greece itself. Contacts with the east led to the introduction of the alphabet wia Pheomicia, and after a lapse of 500 years the Greeks became literate once again. To this same early period should be dated the earliest Greek literature- the poems of Hesoid and the two epics ascribed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
