WHAT'S HELLADIC our next topic sequence

What's Helladic?
 #helladic #mycenaean #Greekbronzeage

Heads UP the next sequence of  mid week / saturday posts will be discussing the #Helladic era!

Basically the #Helladic is the Bronze Age on Mainland Greece from about 3200 BCE to the Protogeometric.

What distinguishes the Helladic from the Neolithic and later eras?

The introduction of METAL  the potters wheel and in the Middle and especially the Late Helladic palaces hydroengineering and a warrior ethos.

Sundays will of course be Greek New Testament POST Day 

but watch next week onwards  for posts on Lake Copais the Minyans and the Mystery of GLA! 

I'm sorry this update is late but hassles this week and yesterday #Sydney was smouldering on #socialmedia about smog caused by hazard reduction burns.

I probably should have carried this laptop to the mall or library and used the free wifi but the smog was effecting me too much.

A Hellenic timeline

A Hellenic Timeline with some terminology explained

Palaeolithic means Ancient Stone an era when the population of Greece was sparse.

Mesolithic is the following Middle Stone Age

The Neolithic era in Greece when farming begun runs from 6700 -3200 with the first farming settlements appearing in Thessaly and later in the South.

Early Neolithic 6700 – 5800

Middle Neolithic 5800 – 5300

Late Neolithic 5300 – 4500

Final Neolithic 4500 – 3200

The Preclassical Minoan cultures of Crete are described as

Prepalatial Protopalatial Neopalatial Final Palatial and Post Palatial followed by the SubMinoan era.

There are also further subcategories.

The Bronze Age of Greece and the Aegean is split into three areas

HELLADIC (Mainland Greece) MINOAN (Crete) CYCLADIC (the Aegean islands)

with Helladic being split into

Early 3200 -2200 Middle 2100 – 1800 and Late or Mycenaean 1800 -1200

followed by the Sub Mycenaean / Minoan era and then the IRON AGE

Protogeometric 1050 -900

Early Geometric 900 – 850

Middle Geometric 850 – 760

Late Geometric 760 – 700

then there is the ARCHAIC 700 – 480

The Persian Invasion is the starting point of the Classical era 480 – 323

The Hellenistic 323 – 146 is the age of Alexander's successors up to the time the Romans took control of Greece. Some scholars treat the Hellenistic as overlapping with Republican and Imperial Rome.

Now you have a basic timeline to copy share and discuss or modify by adding more data.