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After the Bronze Age collapse, Greece lost centralization, literacy, and wealth, entering a period Jiang identifies as the Dark Ages from about 1000 to 600 BCE.
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Illiteracy
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"So, let's go back to last class. We talked about the Bronze Age collapse, right? And we talked about how, in about 1200 BCE,..."
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"It's completely dark to us, okay? So, the second thing that happened. The Greeks became illiterate. The third thing that happened is... The Greeks..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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