Greek history (I)

                             

     Introduction of Greek history

The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern state of Greece, as well as that of the Greek people  and the areas they ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied much through the ages, and, as a result, the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes. Each era has its own related sphere of interest.

The first (proto) Greek- speaking ribes, known later as  Mycenaeans, are generally thought to have arrived in the Greek mainland between the late 3rd and the first half of the  2nd millennium BC probably between 1900 and 1600 BC. When the Mycenaeans invaded, the area was inhabited by various non-Greek-speaking, indigenous pre-Greek people, who practiced agriculture as they had done since the 7yh millennium BC.

At its geographical peak, Greek civilization spread 

from Greece to Egypt  and to the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan. Since then, Greek minorities 

have remained in former Greek territories (e.g., Turkey, Albania, Itlay and Linya, Levant, Armenia

Georgia etc. and Greek emigrants have assimilated into differing societies across the globe (e.g., 

 North America, Australia, Norherm Europe, South Africa, etc.). Nowadays most Greeks live in the 

modern state of Greece (independent since 1821) and Cyprus.