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Identify and account for the chief differences between Greece in the Dark Age and Greece by c.700.  

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Identify and account for the chief differences between Greece in the Dark Age and Greece by c.700. By the year 1100BC great changes had emerged in Greece and they entered the period that is known to Historians as the Dark Ages. Greece before hand had been a prosperous country and between 1400 and 1200BC it actually experienced the height of its Mycenaean power and prosperity. General trade links were strong and small kingdoms such as Tiryns and Pylos had emerged. However between 1200-1100 the palace systems that had been created collapsed understandably causing a certain amount of turmoil amongst the Greeks. The reasons for the sudden collapse of these palace systems isn't certain as writing was also something that was lost during the Dark Ages and thus there is no official record of what happened. Two possible explanations for the collapse, both of which have their floors, are either internal revolt...

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