When Greece surfaced from the Dark periods around 800 BCE, commodity remarkable began to be. For the first time since the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces, people started to suppose beyond bare survival. townlets that had formerly huddled around a single well or patch of cropland began to grow into tone- sustaining communities. Trade routes restarted. tradesmen experimented again with crockery, essence, and fabrics. Farmers began producing overpluses that could be traded rather than simply consumed. The remains of the Citation Age were still scattered across the hills, silent monuments of what had formerly been, but the Greeks of this new age were