The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC DOWNLOAD FREE

Relations with Egypt The Greeks established trade with the Egyptians under Pharaoh Bokkhoris before 700 BC. Greeks were employed as mercenaries when Psamatik, the founder of Dynasty XXVI, led a revolt against Assyria c. 650 BC. The Greeks sold wine and oil in return for Egyptian corn, and did a two-way trade in scarabs and pottery. Greeks continued to be employed as bodyguards by Egyptian pharaohs but in 570 BC there was a nationalist Egyptian rising against Pharoah Hophra and Amasis came to the thrown. Nonetheless, whilst restricting Greek activity in Egypt, Amasis continued to employ Greeks as soldiers. He created a treaty port at Naukratis in the western delta in order to control trade with Greece. The Greeks were inclined to revere the Egyptians and to regard their culture as very old. They imagined that their religion derived from Egypt, and early Greek statues, dating from before 600 BC, show stylistic features, such as the wig-like treatment of the hair, that is reminiscent of Egyptian work.

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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