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Dorians either killed them all or dominated them,
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possibly intermarried with them,
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but dominated them and washed away,
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wiped out the use of the Achaean language
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and imposed their own Dorian language upon it.
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And supporting such an idea, among other things,
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is that if you go to the mountains in the center of the Peloponnesus
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where it's awfully hard to get to,
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there is a region called, well,
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actually beyond those mountains, on the northern shore,
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is a place called Achaea, where the people are Achaeans.
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So, the theory might well be that they were driven away from