The First Atlantean Renaissance:

Before the arrival of Morpheus, the people who would become Atlanteans were barely savages. They were without language, and maintained social order through mutual grooming, and might makes right stratification, with no explicit rules or laws to live by. While the people were focused primarily on day to day survival, they had at least mastered the use of tools, and were accomplished fishermen and hunters. They were capable of crafting fine enough tools for those tasks.

This simple society was often prone to bouts of extreme infighting and aggression however, when one of their number would grow envious of the craft of another, and have no alternative but to try and steal it. It would not be until Lord Morpheus guided them in the practices of language and education that they would be able to share ideas and live harmoniously; beginning the process of growing into us, the people of Atlantean.

When Moprheus came the the people, he did not do so with a fist, a sword nor even a thunder clap of power. He came with just a smile and fish. He just watched them, and they him; while the people were not so afraid that they tried to drive this new stranger away; they were also not without curiosity or caution. They watched him warily from afar throughout that first day, ready to defend themselves if this outsider into a threat, although in truth there would have been nothing they could have done had he wished them ill. When that first day was over; Morpheus spoke to the people in their dreams, and by doing so imbued each of us with the ability to speak the noble tongue that would become the Atlantean language.

To the people of Atlantis this was age is known as "the time of the word of Morpheus" or "The first Atlantean renaissance" where the simple gift of the spoken word brought them us out of the dark ages of subsistence and into the time of ideas and expression.