Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 B.c.e.-476 C.e.: Religion | Research & Encyclopedia Articles

The Dark Ages

The Beginnings of the Polis.

In the Dark Ages that followed the end of the Mycenaean world, Greece sank back into illiteracy. "Linear B" writing had been only a tool for keeping records in the little bureaucracies in the Mycenaean palaces, and once the palaces were destroyed, and records were no longer kept, "Linear B" died out. Central authority collapsed, and once stability reappeared in the Greek world, some 700 little independent states called poleis (translated rather inadequately as "city-states") are found—each a little urban center with a market, surrounded by its territory where the citizens had their.....

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