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IRON AGE
IRON AGE (c. 1000 B.C.) History of Cyprus
For a period following the adoption of iron for the manufacture of weapons and implements, and the decline in demand for copper, Cyprus lost some of her links with the outside world. The very lively Achaean domination of Greece had been succeeded by a cruder, Dorian culture. Cyprus was to a large extent thrown back on her own insular resources and developed slowly, the main advances in technology being the potter's wheel, and the decoration of the product with geometric designs.
But though the influx of the Achaeans and their ideas had abated, a new influence was soon to be brought to bear upon Cyprus, this time from the East. The great trading nation of the Phoenicians, whose routes spread to the farthest known points of the world, would not be likely to remain blind to the potentialities of the richly endowed island on their doorstep. XX'hat began as straightforward trade developed into colonization, or take over, which first concentrated upon Kitium (Larnaca) and costal areas and then encroached to inland settlements, but always with commerce as the set purpose.
