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Classical Antiquity in Greece was preceded by the Greek Dark Ages (c. 1200 – c. 800 BC), archaeologically characterised by the protogeometric and geometric styles of designs on pottery. Following the Dark Ages was the Archaic Period, beginning around the 8th century BC. Earliest evidence of burials found in Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece. 7250 BCE. Evidence of food producing economy, simple hut construction, and seafaring in mainland Greece and the Aegean. These conflicts, called the Crusades, began in 1095 and ended in 1291. The Dark Ages have often been described as a backwards time in human history. The Dark Ages came to a close around 1500 AD, as the Italian Renaissance and the Age of Discovery dawned. × The Dark Ages. The Dark Ages were a time in history when the population was declining and there was little literature or other arts. It gave way to a more enlightened time. This is a timeline of those years. The Iliad and the Odyssey. During the Greek Dark Age, poets called bards traveled to different poli. The bards told stories in the form of long poems called epics. People would often pay to hear the bards describe stories of the distant past. The bards would sing many of the epic poems while accompanied by a stringed instrument called a lyre. The last period of Ancient Egypt is known as the New Kingdom. This is the period of Tutankhamun, Akhenaten, and Ramses II. The New Kingdom lasted from 1570-1070 BC. The New Kingdom as a result of a diminishing of central power, the rise of the High Priests of Amun, and a series of droughts. That brings us to the so-called “Dark Age of Greece”—surely unique in the annals of history (or pseudo-history). Not only was it supposedly a time of great material poverty, but of a virtually complete depopulation of Greece and the Mediterranean islands for at least four hundred years. Writing disappeared. The Dark Ages is a categorization commonly used to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Italian Renaissance and the Age of Exploration. Roughly speaking, the Dark Ages corresponds to the Middle Ages, or from 500 to 1500 AD. The Long Dark The Greek Dark Age Proto-geometric and Geometric Art The Rise of the Hoplite This preview has intentionally blurred sections. Sign up to view the full version. Later, the term expanded to refer more generally to the supposed lack of cultural advancement in Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance, a period officially known as the Early Middle Ages (500-1000 A.D.). Query: how long was the greek dark age
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The Greek Dark Age was between c. 1200 and c. 800 BC.