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Period: 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE
Bronze Age
Minoan & Mycenaeans -
2500 BCE
(Cretans) Minoan Society
Linear A Tablets= Not Greek
Palace Based Society= centralized administration consolidates and redistributes wealth and food -
2000 BCE
1st Wave Mycenean (Greek) Society
Coexisted w/ Minoans
Linear B Tablets= Early Greek
Palace Based Warrior Culture -
1600 BCE
2nd Wave Mycenean (Greek) Society
1600 BC Shaft graves found
Warrior Culture
Palace Based -
1200 BCE
Collapse of Mycenean Culture
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Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE
Dark Ages
Marks the end of Bronze Age
Collapse of Palace Based Society
Spoken Language, The Gods, and Megaron stay the same through this period -
800 BCE
Homer
Homeric Traits of a Good Leader/King=Good Warrior & Persuasive Speaker
Used Epic Poetry in Hexameter meter