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Institutional problems of economic development


TARASEVYCH Viktor M.1

1National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine (Dnipro)

Ancient civilization: Mycenaean evolution and the revolution of Dark Ages

Ekon. teor. 2020; 4:25-44https://doi.org/10.15407/etet2020.04.025


ABSTRACT ▼

This article continues the series of publications devoted to the universal evolution
of ancient civilization and its sub-civilizations. The evolution of the Mycenaean civilizational range and the revolutionary shifts of the "dark ages" are analyzed.
It is shown that the Mycenaean civilizational range, like Krito-Cyclades, belongs to
the middle subtype of the eastern type of social evolution, however, u
nlike the latter, the coastal and inland continental subareals are quite clearly identified in it. With the prevalence of their common middle-east-west (MEW) characteristics, the first component has a comparatively high significance of the western
component, and therefore, the middle-western subtype of the eastern type is inherent in it, and the middle component prevails in the second, which is typical for
the middle-middle subtype of the eastern type of evolution.
The Dorian conquests of the Sub-Mycenaean period interrupted the dominance of
the eastern line of social evolution of Ancient Greece. The palace farms were destroyed, and with them the corresponding social forms. The "Iron Revolution" of
the X-XI centuries catalyzed processes immanent to the Middle type of social evolution. In the Homeric era, on the one hand, the components of the universal middle ground “declared” their claims to dominance, including technological patterns
of non-irrigated agriculture, cattle breeding, river and sea fishing, community military democracy, CI community appropriation of indivisible land, key instruments of
activity and proto-institutes. On the other hand, the components of a new, special
middle ground appear, for example, CCl(F)Pr form of ex-assignment of land and
tools of activity, CCl(F)P form of endo-assignment of EHShum and institutions.
Unfortunately, the shortage of historical data does not allow us to accurately determine the subtype of the evolution of Homer's society.

Keywords:civilizational range and subareal, type and subtype of universal evolution, revolutionary shifts, ethnocultural synthesis, centripetalism, centrifugality, power-property, private ex-appropriation


JEL: A12, N41, O52, P40

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