Greece Travel Guía

Ancient Greece

The first colony sign in Greece comes of approximately 55,000BC (57,000 years ago). Even then there were no very numerous people even around 3000 aC. The Greek history in general is divided in a stone Age, an Age Of bronze, and an Iron Age. Sometimes the people divide each of these periods in more small periods also.

The stone Age the ancient tracks of human residence in Greece fashionable raisin from the period Paleolithic (120,000 - 10,000 aC approximately). During the Neolithic subsequent period (7,000 - 3,000 aC approximately), civilization it prospers in Greece. A wealth of Neolithic establishments and cemeteries they have been discovered in Thessaly (Sesklo, Dimini), Macedonia, Peloponeso and others.

The Bronze Ages the beginning of the Age Of bronze (3000 - 1100 aC aprox). it is marked by the aspect of the first urban centers in the Aegean Sea (Poliochni to the island of Limnos). The suburbs prosperity is found on Crete, the Greek continent, the Ciclades and in the Aegean Sea North-East, regions where the cultural typical model develops. At the beginning of the 2nd millenium aC he organized magnificent societies appear on Crete Minoan, causing the development of the first writing. Using the palace of Knossos like its center, the Minoans believe a communication network with the peoples of Oriental Mediterranean, he adopts the elements of its cultures, and has a decisive influence to its shift on the cultures of the Greek continent and the islands egeas. On the Greek continent, the Mycenaeans, the use of the destructions caused on Crete for the eruption of the volcano on Santorini (around 1500 aC), passes pass and the main force does in the Aegean Sea during last centuries of the 2nd millenium aC.Las citadels Mycenaean to itself in Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos, Thebes, Gla, Athens and Iolkós constitute the centers of kingdoms burocráticamente organized. The extensive destruction of the centers of Mycenaean around 1200 aC drove to the decrease of the Mycenaean civilization and the migration of the big parts of the population to the coasts of the Asia Minor and Cyprus (the 1st Greek colonization).

Epoch obscurantist This age continued before a period of wars and invasions, known as the age of the obscurantism (Alta Edad Media). The age of the obscurantism Greek (Alta Edad Media) (the California 1100 AC 750 aC) refers to the period of Greek history of the supposed invasion of Dorian and the end of the civilization Mycenaean in the XIth century aC to the increase of the first cities - been Greek in the IXth century aC and Homer's epics and the earliest writing in the alphabetical Greek in the VIIIth century aC. In these periods, the Greeks lived through a cleanly sedentary, not urbanized, agricultural life. Many peoples were left, and it seems probably that many Greeks were sick to a nomadic life in small tribal groups. Several Greeks in this period took to the sea and emigrated to the islands in the Aegean Sea; according to the Greek history, they soon were followed by the Dorians. Not only it did the writing of abandonment of Greeks and most of craft, they also left its commercial big network. They practically stopped trading with the Asia Minor, the Middle East, and Egypt; in fact, they seem to have stopped trading between them also. Fortunately for the Greeks, none of the big powers had ever been interested in Europe or the Aegean Sea, so the age of the obscurantism Greek (Alta Edad Media), once the Dorians had placed, there were probably a peace time. This one long breather allowed to the Greeks the free time slowly to re-urbanize an urbanized culture. In spite of the sadness of the situation, the Greeks began to urbanize slowly in the last part of the age of the obscurantism (Alta Edad Media). This early developed culture would produce, in the same close to the age of the obscurantism Greek (Alta Edad Media), the biggest Greek alone achievement in the opinion about them: Homer's poetry. Not only there are two epic poems of Homer's windows in distant Mycenean ahead and in the darkness of the Greek Middle Age, they are the precise moment in the Greek culture; for the Greeks it will turn round to these poems everywhere of its history to be defined culturally, politically, and historically.