Greece And Their History
One of the great paradoxes of history is that the next hesitant advanced of european civilization of the development of the first city statestook place noton the fertile open central eurapean plains, but in a remote island to the south of the aegean sea which was completely lacking in metal resources. While the glittering mounted warrior princess of central european dissipated their creative energy in warfare,a highly cultured yet peaceful society, build on trade and an agriculture surplus, emerged on crete. The history of greece can be trace back to stones age hunters. Later came early farmers and the zivilitation of thr minoan and mycenean kings. This was fallowed by a period of wasrs and invasio, Known as the dark ages. In about 1100 BC, a people called the bariens involved from the narth and spred down the west coast. In the period from 500- 336 BC, greece was divided into small cities and states where more people could go and live there.