1 gen 1650 anni a. C. - Mycenaean culture develops in Greece

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Mainland Greece

"By about 1650 B.C.E., one group of these immigrants had raised palaces and established cities at Thebes, Athens, Mycenae (migh-SEE-nee), and elsewhere. These palace-centers ruled by local kings formed a loose alliance under the authority of the king of Mycenae, and the archaeologists who first discovered traces of this culture called it Mycenaean (migh-see-NEE-an)."

"The seat and symbol of the king’s power was his palace, which was also the economic center of the kingdom. Within the palace’s walls, royal artisans fashioned gold jewelry and rich ornaments, made pottery, forged weapons, prepared hides and wool for clothing, and manufactured the other goods needed by the king and his supporters. The Mycenaean economy was marked by an extensive division of labor, and at the bottom of the social scale were male and female slaves."

"Palace scribes kept records with a script known as Linear B, which scholars realized was an early form of Greek and have learned to read. Thus, they consider the Mycenaeans the first truly “Greek” culture to emerge in this area."

"...war was common. Mycenaean cities were all fortified by thick stone walls, and graves contain bronze spears, javelins, swords, helmets, and the first examples of metal armor known in the world. Mycenaean kingdoms appear to have fought regularly with one another."

"Prosperity did not bring peace, however; between 1300 and 1100 B.C.E., various kingdoms in and beyond Greece ravaged one another in a savage series of wars that destroyed both the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations."

"The fall of the Minoans and Mycenaeans was part of what scholars see as a general collapse of Bronze Age civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean"

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