The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC
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Ethnic tensions
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There were powerful ethnic differences among the Peloponnesians and these could be exploited by leaders for political gain. The cause of the ethnic tension was the conquest of the Peloponnese by the Dorians c. 1000 BC with the consequent reduction to serfdom of pre-Dorians. This tension was heightened when in the C7th BC Sparta conquered its neighbour Messenia. Throughout the Peloponnese there were underprivileged classes who were primarily ethnically non-Dorian. Tyrants could appeal to one ethnic group in order to win popular support.
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Contents of
The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC
1 Population growth and land hunger
2 Economic expansion and the rising "middle class"
3 Cultural developments in Greece during the period of tyrannies
4 Hoplite tactics
5 Factional politics
6 Ethnic tensions
7 The downfall of tyrants in archaic Greece
8 The Dorian and Ionic migrations
9 The Dorians
10 Greek Dark age
11 The Greek City States
12 Greek colonization of the C8th BC
13 Greek colonization of the Aegean and East
14 Greek settlers in the Euxine
15 Causes of the Greek colonization
16 Archaeological evidence for Greek population expansion in C8th BC
17 Foundation of Cyrene
18 Corcyra
19 Olbia
20 The Lelantine war
21 Relations with Egypt
22 Greek Culture during the Greek Middle Ages
23 Introduction of phonetic script
24 Homer
25 Hesiod
26 Foundation of the Olympic Games
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