> early Greeks, and especially the Mycenaeans (c. 1750–1050 BCE), are associated with major advances in technology (including writing)
I’ve been doing a bit of reading on the Bronze Age Collapse recently. It was such an apocalyptic event that Greeks forgot how to write and read.
Before the collapse Greeks Linear A and Linear B. It took them a few hundred years after the Beonze Age Collapse to start writing again, this time by borrowing the Phoenician alphabet.
I’ve been doing a bit of reading on the Bronze Age Collapse recently. It was such an apocalyptic event that Greeks forgot how to write and read.
Before the collapse Greeks Linear A and Linear B. It took them a few hundred years after the Beonze Age Collapse to start writing again, this time by borrowing the Phoenician alphabet.