And beginning around 1150 b.c., the authors speculate, a mysterious wave of invaders from the north wiped out the brilliant Mycenaean civilization, reducing Greek society to a culturally primitive ``dark age'' until around 750 b.c. ), it derived most of its industrial skills from its more highly developed neighbors around the Mediterranean basin. While Bronze Age Greece eventually developed a distinctive culture and power base at Mycenae (c. 30001150 b.c.) seem in retrospect an unlikely bet to become the progenitors of a great world civilization. A poor, backward people occupying barely cultivable land on the periphery of the Mediterranean world, the Bronze Age Hellenes or Greeks (c. of New York), a comprehensive narrative history that emphasizes the ``astonishing creativity, versatility, and resilience'' of the culture shaped by the ancient Greeks. of Calif., Irvine), and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts (Classics/City Coll. State U niv., Los Angeles), Walter Donlan (Classics/Univ. From Pomeroy (Classics/Hunter Coll.), Stanley M.
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