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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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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"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,..."
"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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