Question: What civilization is the group credited with putting an end to ?
Answer: the Mycenaean civilization,

Question: Is it believed that they truly are responsible in full for the collapse ? 
Answer: it is likely the main attack was made by seafaring raiders (sea peoples)

Question: What areas were being explored by others in  by sea faring vessels and when are they believed to have arrived  ?
Answer: seafaring raiders (sea peoples) who sailed into the eastern Mediterranean around 1180 BC

Question: How did the Greeks look upon their forebears ?
Answer: Greeks of classical antiquity idealized their Mycenaean ancestors

Question: How did they believe their forebears lived ?
Answer: Mycenaean period as a glorious era of heroes, closeness of the gods and material wealth

Question: What literary events were believed to be a fact of truth ?
Answer: The Homeric Epics (i.e. Iliad and Odyssey) were especially and generally accepted as part of the Greek past

Question: Who was the author of these tales ?
Answer: Homer

Question: What were the names of some of the figures for the established religion that are based on ancestral ties ? 
Answer: Zeus, Poseidon and Hades

Question: What event is believed to be the ethnic basis of the Greeks society?
Answer: The ethnogenesis of the Greek nation is linked to the development of Pan-Hellenism

Question: When did this event occur ?
Answer: development of Pan-Hellenism in the 8th century BC.

Question: What national sporting event was held during this time period still goes on in celebration today ?
Answer: the foundational event was the Olympic Games in 776 BC,

Question: What was the foundation for spirituality and church ? 
Answer: The works of Homer (i.e. Iliad and Odyssey) and Hesiod (i.e. Theogony)

Question: What famous spiritual guide and God was a devotional temple made to in the 8th century ?
Answer: Oracle of Apollo at Delphi

Question: The time span that is counted as the classical for the Greeks is from eras ?
Answer: classical period of Greek civilization covers a time spanning from the early 5th century BC to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC

Question: What is so well known about this period ?
Answer: It is so named because it set the standards by which Greek civilization would be judged in later eras

Question: Are there some discrepancies among scholars for the distinction of the period ?
Answer: this period into 'Classical', from the end of the Persian wars to the end of the Peloponnesian War, and 'Fourth Century', up to the death of Alexander

Question: What shiny other name is this time also called ?
Answer: The Classical period is also described as the "Golden Age" of Greek civilization

Question: What did the Greeks do that made it possible for the expansion and growth of the opposite of the Eastern Civilization ?
Answer: civilization, and its art, philosophy, architecture and literature would be instrumental in the formation and development of Western culture.

Question: What Macedonian ruler helped to advance Greek beliefs and ways of life ?
Answer: Alexander

Question: How was this achievement of advancing culture undertaken ?
Answer: provided an important outlet for Greek culture, via the creation of colonies and trade routes along the way

Question: What types of cities did the expansion of the great ruler inspire ?
Answer: Hellenistic cities

Question: Are any relatives of the first people of  the Grecian world still around ?
Answer: there are still communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan, like the Kalash, who claim to be descended from Greek settlers.

Question: Name a city that the Greeks nested in ?
Answer: cities like Alexandria, Antioch and Seleucia.

Question: With the secession away from the smaller communities in the Grecian world, what living situation became of great importance ?
Answer: the Greeks move towards larger cities and a reduction in the importance of the city-state.

Question: The kingdoms of Diadochi was comprised of what ?
Answer: larger cities were parts of the still larger Kingdoms of the Diadochi.

Question: How did the cites remind themselves of their beginnings ?
Answer: Greeks, however, remained aware of their past, chiefly through the study of the works of Homer and the classical authors.

Question: What did the Greeks wants to be imparted to their descendants ?
Answer: the transmission of the Hellenic paideia to the next generation.

Question: What academia was heightened during this time of Hellenism ?
Answer: Greek science, technology and mathematics are generally considered to have reached their peak during the Hellenistic period.

Question: When did the religions of the past begin to dissipate ?
Answer: decline beginning in the 3rd century BC

Question: What encouraged the change of faith ?
Answer: with the introduction of new religious movements from the East.

Question: What religions form of worship came from the Eastern sects ?
Answer: The cults of deities like Isis and Mithra were introduced into the Greek world.

Question: What group was significant in the expansion of the Christian faith ?
Answer: Hellenized East were instrumental in the spread of early Christianity

Question: What language are the Apostle's namely believed to have spoken ?
Answer: Christianity's early leaders and writers (notably St Paul) were generally Greek-speaking

Question: What alternative name were the Greeks known by ?
Answer: the Greeks identified as Romaioi ("Romans")

Question: What did the label of  Hellenes come to stand for during the Common Era of Greece ?
Answer: the name ‘Hellenes’ denoted pagans

Question: Did the Roman world consider one ethnocentric lineage to be a great concern ?
Answer: secondary to religious considerations

Question: What imperative value was extolled from the Christian community to the Roman world ?
Answer: Greco-Roman educational system, although it was from Christianity that the culture's essential values were drawn.

Question: When did the Byzantine Kingdom come under the impact of the Greeks. 
Answer: influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century,

Question: Who ruled Rome during this time period ?
Answer: Emperor Heraclius (AD 575 - 641)

Question: What decision did he make that influenced the culture in an attempt to make things more homogeneous ?
Answer: decided to make Greek the empire's official language.

Question: What made the Eastern Empire be known as the Imperium Graecorum ?
Answer: Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor"

Question: Who was favored by those who lived in the west and mainly used another form of well know verbal language ?
Answer: the Latin West started to favour the Franks

Question: What caused the resurface of the Grecian monotony in politics ?
Answer: the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1204

Question: When did the nation reestablish itself ?
Answer: empire was revived in 1261

Question: What was the specialty of great Pietho and what is famous for ?
Answer: philosopher Gemistus Pletho, who abandoned Christianity.

Question: What was bolstered by the the final downward spiral of the Empire of Trebizond ?
Answer: interest in the Classical Greek heritage was complemented by a renewed emphasis on Greek Orthodox identity

Question: Which factoring war was on gong in 1828 and shares the of a previous scuttle ? ?
Answer: second Russo-Turkish War

Question: When did the emperor Constantine  lose rule over in 1453 ?
Answer: Fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453

Question: What did the populace do in response to the loss ?
Answer: many Greeks sought better employment and education opportunities by leaving for the West

Question: What type of position did Greeks come to hold in the Ottoman Empire ?
Answer: in part to the fact that the central hub of the empire, politically, culturally, and socially, was based on Western Thrace and Greek Macedonia