*Mycenaean Period- Linear B early Greek (1 ene 1600 año aC – 1 ene 1100 año aC)

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Now, that derives from one site in the northeastern Peloponnesus called Mycenae, and the name is given because in the poems of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the leading Greek king, the man who is the leader of the expedition to Troy, is Agamemnon, who was king of the Argolid region and his palace and his home are at Mycenae, and that's why we call the entire culture, the Bronze Age culture, running from about 1600 to perhaps as late as 1100, but perhaps not so late. That's what we mean when we speak about the Mycenaeans and the Mycenaean Period. And please keep in mind that they are Greek speakers; and we know this with confidence, The same thing is true of Knossos in Crete, and perhaps a few other sites in Crete.
What we learn ultimately from our decipherment of Linear B is that this was an early form of Greek
the Mycenaean civilization was a commercial one that relied for its wealth upon trade and that meant trade by sea, more than by land. The citadel is always surrounded by farmland, pg. 11

So you have trade (perfumed oils) with the Mediterranean and most especially the eastern Mediterranean, because that's where the older, more sophisticated, more civilized cultures were and that's where wealth was too, compared to what was out in the west. So, that's also the pattern of trade.

The remains and records of these strongholds make it clear that the political organization was an imitation of oriental monarchy. Pg. 14

Now, the legacy from the Mycenaeans to Greek civilization later is very limited. But what there is, is very important and no part of it is more important than the Homeric poems themselves. Yale pg. 21

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