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3000-1250 B.C. Minoan Culture on Crete
1600-1500 B.C. Shaft graves at Mycenae
1400 B.C. Earliest
Mycenaean palaces
1300-1200 B.C. High
point of Mycenaean Culture
1370 B.C. Fall of
Knossos on Crete
1180 B.C. Sack of Troy
VIIA; Homer's Troy possibly Troy VI
1200-900 The Dark Ages:
Disturbances across the Aegean region; Mycenaeans become wanderers;
dispossessed of their homes, their civilization destroyed, they
settle on the mainland of Greece and Asia Minor (Turkey), preserving
remnants of their culture.
800-500 B.C.
Development of city-states
750-700 B.C.Composition
of Iliad and Odyssey; Homeric poetry recorded in writing after Greeks
learn to write again, using Phoenician alphabet modified with
vowels.
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