The Dorians were a community of people in Ancient Greece who invaded and took over the Minoans and the Mycaeans in around 1000 B.C The Dorians were a community of people in Ancient Greece who invaded and took over the Minoans and the Mycaeans in around 1000 B.C
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They had gne to extreme challenges to improve his kingdom and remodel it so he knew he would be safe in it and no enemy would be able to destroy his kingdom.
Depends on the period of Greek civilization. The earliest Greeks on record were the Achaeans and Danaans. Pylos, Athens, certain Boeotian states were all major Mycenaean states that flourished prior to the Dorian invasion. The Dorians (Sparta and Corinth [Peloponnesian states]) were another nationality. Or a short version Japheth's son Javan
they invaded about 1150 B.C
the mycenaean and the dorians
Dorian Greeks and the Sea Peoples.
The Dorians, along with a helpful hand by internal power struggles.
After the Dorians attacked, the Mycenaean people fled to the hills. Faced with learning to survive, they discontinued the use of writing skills.
The ancient Greek were descended from the Mycenaeans, Aeolians, Arcadians, Ionians, Dorians.
The Mycenean civilisation began in ca.1580BC and lasted until 1120BC. It was destroyed by the Dorians.
It was taken over by peoples moving in from the north (Dorians) and east (Sea peoples).
There is a blank page in Greece between 1200 and 1050 BCE between the fading Mycenaean civilisation and the beginning of Doric cultural traces. So whether the Dorians directly replaced the Mycenaeans is unknown. Or was ther some other invader who destroyed the Mycenaean culture and the Dorians moved in later. We don't really know, and little concrete evidence emerged from these dark ages for another three centuries.
The Dorians conquered the Mycenaens because they had iron weapons and their swords were stronger. When the Dorians conquered the Myceaneans the Dark ages began.
Mycenae.
They moved into Greece from the north as the Mycenaean civilisation crumbled and reestablished Greek culture in the Peloponnesian Peninsula.
The fall was precipitated by the incursion of other peoples who looted and took over - mainly the Sea Peoples, Ionians and Dorians.