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This civilization was developed in Crete. Its name came from the mythological king Minos. This island is located in the middle of the routes that joined Asia, Europe and Africa. It became rich because it trade.
The Minoans seem to have always given a predominant role to goddesses, which is why their religion has sometimes been described as "matriarchal." -
The name became for the famous cities. Composed of small states with palaces. The main activity is agriculture. They live in Peloponnese.
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The Greek Dark Age began, because it was a period of economic and cultural decline. A period of economy and cultural decline.
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Poleis met together in panhellenic festivals like the olimpic games. In olympia. In the Archaid civilization the people worked in agriculture and commerce which made some poleis, like Athens, very wealthy.
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With the foundation of the Olympic Games and the Second Persian invasion of Greece, forming notional starting and ending dates.
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In the Archaid civilization the people worked in agriculture and commerce which made some poleis, like Athens, very wealthy.
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Hellenistic culture thus represents a fusion of the ancient Greek world with that of Western Asian, Northeastern African, and Southwestern Asian. This mixture gave rise to a common Attic-based Greek dialect, known as Koine Greek, which became the lingua franca throughout the ancient world.
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In these wars, the Delian League, led by Athens, and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, faced each other.
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In the 8th century BC the greeks had already adopted the Phoenican alphabet.