{"id":381787,"date":"2018-10-20T19:34:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T18:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-greek-dark-age-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-10-20T19:34:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T18:34:56","slug":"the-greek-dark-age-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-greek-dark-age-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greek Dark Age – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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QUESTION:<\/strong>\u00a0Mr. Armstrong; You mentioned that the environment was the primary cause of the Greek Dark age\u00a0between\u00a0the Heroic and Hellenistic\u00a0periods. Can you elaborate on that at all?<\/p>\n

Thank you. They do not seem to connect the dots as you say in school.<\/p>\n

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ANSWER:<\/strong>\u00a0What is most interesting is the fact that they do not connect the dots which are so glaring for that period of time.\u00a0The\u00a0Bronze Age Collaps<\/strong>e was a Dark-Age in the Near East, Asia Minor, Aegean region, North Africa, Caucasus, Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. This encapsulated the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, which was violent, sudden, and a major setback for civilization as a whole. We seem to focus on the fall of Rome, but not the catastrophic collapse of the Bronze Age.
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The political economy of city-states that dominated the Aegean region and Anatolia region (Modern Turkey), simply disintegrated much like Rome whereby people abandoned cities and formed small isolated village during the Greek Dark Age. This takes place about 51.6 years following the cultural collapse of the Mycenaean kingdoms, of the Kassite dynasty of Babylonia, of the Hittite Empire in Anatolia and the Levant, and of the Egyptian Empire. We also see the political-economic destruction of Ugarit and the Amorite states in the Levant. Over in\u00a0the Luwian states of western Asia Minor, we also see a collapse in civilization. There was also a period of tremendous political-economic chaos in Canaan (Israel).\u00a0This wholesale collapse of all of these city-states resulted in the collapse of trade routes as we saw with the collapse of Rome. This also manifests in the reduction of literacy in much of the known…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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QUESTION:\u00a0Mr. Armstrong; You mentioned that the environment was the primary cause of the Greek Dark age\u00a0between\u00a0the Heroic and Hellenistic\u00a0periods. Can you elaborate on that at all? Thank you. They do not seem to connect the dots as you say in school. ANSWER:\u00a0What is most interesting is the fact that they do not connect the dots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}