History of Greece. 
CHAPTER IL 
FIRST PERIOD. 
FROM THE DORIAN MIGRATION TO THE FIRST OLYMPIAD, 
B.C, 1104-776, 
. Leaving the dim twilight of legendary Greece, we come to 
Dorian a period when there took place those movements 
settlement in Of tribes that resulted in settling the Hellenes in 
Peloponnesus, +p05e parts of Hellas in which we find them during 
the times of authentic history. The chief of these movements 
was that known as the Dorian Migration or Return of the 
Heraclide, this latter name following the legend that the de- 
scendants of the demigod Heracles (hera-clez) (Hercules), 
called Heraclide, after being driven from the Peloponnesus, re- 
turned thither in alliance with the Dorians. The event thus 
referred to is really the Conquest of the Peloponnesus by the 
Dorians, and the date assigned to it is B.C. 1104, about 80 years 
after the supposed date of the legendary Trojan War. The 
germ of historical truth in the matter is that. about B.C. 1100, 
the Dorians, under various leaders, made their way from their 
abodes in central Greece into the Peloponnesus, and conquered 
the greater part of the peninsula after a long and severe contest 
with the Achseans and others who were established there. All 
Peloponnesus, except Arcadia and the part called afterwards 
Acha’ia, became Dorian, including the kingdoms of Sparta, Argos, 
and Messe'nia, Elis being occupied, it is said, by Aitolian allies of 
the Dorians. This great movement led to other changes in the 
Hellenic world. Of the Achsans in the Peloponnesus some 
were subdued and remained in the land as an inferior class, 
tilling the soil as tenants under Dorian lords. Other Achzans, 
expelled from the south and east of the peninsula, fell back 
upon the northern coast, inhabited by the Ionians, whom they 
drove out into Attica and other parts of Central Greece, From 
this time the Peloponnesus was mainly Dorian, the Ionians being 
dominant in Central Greece and many islands of the /Egean Sea. 
2. The Dorian conquest was succeeded by the planting of 
Greek numerous colonies on the west coast of Asia Minor 
colonies in and in the neighbouring islands of the Agean Sea. 
Asia Minor, These colonies were settled by the three races, the 
A Tot znan 7 A Meder 0 "fans colonized the