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The Coming of the Greeks 125
It Was to be long, however, before these inland Greek shepherds 213. The
barbarian
Greek
Would themselves venture timidly out upon the great waters which
they were vieWing for the first time. Had the gaze of the Greek ™m^srg0£
n°rnads been .able to penetrate beyond the ^Egean isles, they °^*etafreat
Would have seen a vast panorama of great and flourishing oriental world,
states. For on reaching the ^Egean the Greeks had entered the
borders of the great oriental world. Under, the influences of the
Orient, therefore, the Greeks were now to go forward toward
the development of a civilization higher than any the Orient had
yet produced, the highest indeed which ancient man ever attained.
Gradually their vanguard (called the Achaeans) pushed n^Achsari
southward into the Peloponnesus, and doubtless some of them
lowed by the
mingled with the dwellers in the villages which were grouped g°e"k"s in
Under the walls of Tiryns and Mycenae (Figs. 60, 61). Some of ^J^°pon"
trie Greek leaders may have captured these ./Egean fortresses.1 1500 b.c.
■But our knowlege of the situation in Greece is very meager
because the peoples settled there could not yet write, and there-
fore have left no written documents to tell the story. It is-
evident, however, that a second wave of Greek nomads (called
the Dorians) reached the Peloponnesus by 150° b.c. and sub-
dued their earlier kinsmen (the Achaeans) as well as the ^Egean
toWnsmen, the original inhabitants of the region.
The Dorians did not stop at the southern limits of Greece, 215. The
out, learning a little navigation from their JEgean predecessors, passion of
tney passed over to Crete, where they must have arrived by ^0erjJ.gean
Hoo b.c. Cnossus, unfortified as it was, must have fallen an Dorians in
p„ £ Crete and the
^sy prey to the invading Dorians. They took possession of southern
t^e island, and likewise seized the other southern islands of the MSea-n
■^•gean. Between 1300 and 1000 b.c. the Greek tribes took
Possession of the remaining islands, as well as the coast of
Asia Minor, — the Dorians in the south, the Ionians in the
Middle, and the ^Eolians in the north. Here a memorable
Greek expedition in the twelfth century b.c., after a long
1 The student will recall a similar situation, as the incoming Hebrew nomads
°°k the strongholds of their predecessors in Palestine, like Jerusalem (§ 171).
It Was to be long, however, before these inland Greek shepherds 213. The
barbarian
Greek
Would themselves venture timidly out upon the great waters which
they were vieWing for the first time. Had the gaze of the Greek ™m^srg0£
n°rnads been .able to penetrate beyond the ^Egean isles, they °^*etafreat
Would have seen a vast panorama of great and flourishing oriental world,
states. For on reaching the ^Egean the Greeks had entered the
borders of the great oriental world. Under, the influences of the
Orient, therefore, the Greeks were now to go forward toward
the development of a civilization higher than any the Orient had
yet produced, the highest indeed which ancient man ever attained.
Gradually their vanguard (called the Achaeans) pushed n^Achsari
southward into the Peloponnesus, and doubtless some of them
lowed by the
mingled with the dwellers in the villages which were grouped g°e"k"s in
Under the walls of Tiryns and Mycenae (Figs. 60, 61). Some of ^J^°pon"
trie Greek leaders may have captured these ./Egean fortresses.1 1500 b.c.
■But our knowlege of the situation in Greece is very meager
because the peoples settled there could not yet write, and there-
fore have left no written documents to tell the story. It is-
evident, however, that a second wave of Greek nomads (called
the Dorians) reached the Peloponnesus by 150° b.c. and sub-
dued their earlier kinsmen (the Achaeans) as well as the ^Egean
toWnsmen, the original inhabitants of the region.
The Dorians did not stop at the southern limits of Greece, 215. The
out, learning a little navigation from their JEgean predecessors, passion of
tney passed over to Crete, where they must have arrived by ^0erjJ.gean
Hoo b.c. Cnossus, unfortified as it was, must have fallen an Dorians in
p„ £ Crete and the
^sy prey to the invading Dorians. They took possession of southern
t^e island, and likewise seized the other southern islands of the MSea-n
■^•gean. Between 1300 and 1000 b.c. the Greek tribes took
Possession of the remaining islands, as well as the coast of
Asia Minor, — the Dorians in the south, the Ionians in the
Middle, and the ^Eolians in the north. Here a memorable
Greek expedition in the twelfth century b.c., after a long
1 The student will recall a similar situation, as the incoming Hebrew nomads
°°k the strongholds of their predecessors in Palestine, like Jerusalem (§ 171).