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THE LEGACY OF GREECE

. . . . Going beyond mythmaking and religion, the Greeks strove to understand in logical national terms, both the universe and the position of men and women in it. The result was the birth of philosophy and science -- subject that were far more important to most Greeks thinkers than religion. The Greeks speculated on human beings and society and created the very concept of politics.

The history of the Greeks is divided into two broad periods: the Hellenic roughly the time between the arrivals of the Greeks (approximately 2000 BC) and the victory over Greece in 338 BC. Of Philip of Macedon, and the Hellenistic, the age beginning with the remarkable reign of Philip’s son Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) and ending with Roman conquest of the Hellenistic east (200-148 B.C) ~ Page 64

The fall of the Mycenaean kingdoms ushered in a period of such poverty, disruption, and backwardness that historians usually call it the “Dark Age” of Greece (1100-800 BC). Even literacy was a casualty of the chaos. Yet even this period was important to the development of Greek civilization. It was a time of widespread movements of Greek-speaking peoples. Some Greeks sailed to Crete, where they established eastward through the Aegean to the coast of Asia Minor. These immigrations turned the Aegean into a Greek lake. The people who stayed beyond gradually rebuild Greek society. They thus provided an element of continuity, a link between the Mycenean period and the Greek culture that emerged from the Dark Age. ~ Page 68

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