The Early Iron Age: 'The Dark Ages' (c. 1200-750 BC)

Question 1

fall of the Mycenaean civilization

Answer 1

c. 1200

Question 2

the dark ages

Answer 2

culture as people knew it in Greece came to an end (palace economy collapsed, big cities became occupied, Linear B was lost) and very few materials were written or exist today

Question 3

Ionian migration

Answer 3

during the dark ages some Greeks fled to the west coast of Asia Minor

Question 4

Dorians

Answer 4

Greeks from the Peloponnese, Crete and south-west Asia Minor who spoke the Dorian dialect

Question 5

Iliad and Odyssey

Answer 5

epic poems by Homer that cover the Dark Ages and revolve around the Trojan war and the period after it; thought to be written respectively c. 700 BC and c. 710 BC

Question 6

Olympic Games

Answer 6

first organized in 776 BC in Olympia in honor of the main god Zeus

Question 7

Cyprus

Answer 7

a key island in maintaining contact between the Greeks and the eastern mediterraneans