Who were the Greeks?
The Greeks were people who migrated to Greece at two different stages. During the Bronze Age civilisations (c. 2000-1050 BC, and later by Hellenic Greeks from the Dorian Invasion at the beginning of the Iron Age. The Bronze Age Greeks, which I called pre-Hellenic Greeks, occupied Greece around the beginning of Middle Bronze Age (c. 2000 BC), displacing the originally inhabitants, who spoke a non-Greek language. Greek writers had called these people Pelasgi (Pelasgians). What languages that were spoken before the first Greek had settled in this land are unknown. The names of some cities had survived the Greek occupation, such as Tiryns and Corinth on the mainland, and Cnossus on the island of Crete. The Dorian Invasion (c. 1200-1050 BC) had brought the Hellenic people that spoke three different Greek dialects, Aeolian, Dorian and Ionian. These Hellenic Greeks were the true ancestors of the people living in modern Greece today. The proper name for the Greek people is Hellenes. In Greek m
