The Bronze Age Collapse
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The Mysenean Past
I don't think there was that much of a cultural memory, but I think seafaring nations have an underlying persistence and knowledge that is independent of states. The only way to go was into the Mediterranean, but they were probably drawing upon sailors' knowledge of roots anyway. And all trade was personal, so you traded with people you knew, and families you known, and you inherited those personal relationships through across the generations. John: There is a sense in which the Greek, the Greeks of the 8th, 7th century BC were aware of their mysenean past,. as we would call it, they were heroic past.
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