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 *1070–1030 BC: HR IIIC3; abandonment of Phylakopi and Tiryns.
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-! colspan="16" style="background: #CD853F; text-align: center;"|<span style="font-size:medium">'''Greece and the Aegean in the Mycenaean civilization'''</span>
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 Mycenaean III<br />1425 - 1100&nbsp;BC
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 The term "Mycenaean" was chosen by the archaeologist [[Heinrich Schliemann]] to describe this civilization in the second half of the nineteenth century, before Charles Thomas Newton defined its characteristics by identifying its homogeneous material culture from finds made over several centuries.  The name itself is taken from that of the city of [[Mycenae]], due in part to it being the first archaeological site excavated to reveal the importance of this civilization as a whole, as well as its prominence within the memory of ancient Greek writers, with [[Homer]] making the king of Mycenae "the chief of the Achaeans" in his epic, the ''[[Illiad]]''.
-The name that this early Greek population used to describe themselves is unknown, although it is sometimes thought that it has been preserved in the Achaeans of Homer. On the place name list in the mortuary temple of the 14th century BC. Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, the Greek mainland – or at least the south of it – is called Tanaja / Danaja.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=CK9JDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT196&lpg=PT196&dq=tanaja+egypt&source=bl&ots=RLeHgHCtZV&sig=jpgBSR40y3M9iLz4Ub-ISd6ZFRQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZyJG284_cAhUGXa0KHatUAYUQ6AEIYTAN#v=onepage&q=tanaja%20egypt&f=false</ref> This may possibly be etymologically connected with the Danaoi (Δαναοί), one of three names for the Greeks in the Homeric epics.<ref>https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Danaoi</ref>
+The name that this early Greek population used to describe themselves is unknown, although it is sometimes thought that it has been preserved in the Achaeans of Homer. On the place name list in the mortuary temple of the 14th century BC Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, the Greek mainland – or at least the south of it – is called Tanaja / Danaja.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=CK9JDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT196&lpg=PT196&dq=tanaja+egypt&source=bl&ots=RLeHgHCtZV&sig=jpgBSR40y3M9iLz4Ub-ISd6ZFRQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZyJG284_cAhUGXa0KHatUAYUQ6AEIYTAN#v=onepage&q=tanaja%20egypt&f=false</ref> This may possibly be etymologically connected with the Danaoi (Δαναοί), one of three names for the Greeks in the Homeric epics.<ref>https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Danaoi</ref>
 ==Chronology==
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 The chronology of the Mycenaean civilization is based on the stylistic evolution of the pottery, documented by Arne Furumark from the stratigraphic levels of the excavated sites.<ref>A. Furumark, Mycenaean Pottery, vol. II Chronology, 1941</ref> This relative chronology remains valid, but the dating of certain "floating" intervals gave rise to some controversies in the scientific world. This is particularly true for the beginning of the Mycenaean period (recent Helladic I) where the rarity of associations of Aegean objects and products of the Near East prevent the restitution of the real chronological extent of this phase. The progress achieved in radiocarbon dating, however, makes it possible to fix the beginning of the Mycenaean civilization in the second half of the 17th century BC.
-The Mycenaean Period – a recent period in the Aegean Bronze Age (Helladic) – spans more than 500 years.<ref>http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/aegeanchron.html</ref> The Helladic began about 3000 BC, with the recent Helladic name (abbreviated as HR) is used for the time of the Mycenaean civilization, and has been divided by archaeologists into several successive periods:
+The Mycenaean Period – a recent period in the Aegean Bronze Age – spans more than 500 years.<ref>http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/aegeanchron.html</ref> The Helladic began about 3000 BC, with the recent Helladic name (abbreviated as HR) is used for the time of the Mycenaean civilization, and has been divided by archaeologists into several successive periods:
 *1650–1600 BC: HR I; beginning of the pit circle tombs (tombs B) of Mycenae; epoch marked by the Thera volcanic eruption ca. 1625 BC.
 *1600–1470 BC: HR IIA; circle of grave tombs A of Mycenae.
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 *1130–1070 BC: HR IIIC2;  Phylakopi and Tiryns constricted
 *1070–1030 BC: HR IIIC3; abandonment of Phylakopi and Tiryns.
 ==References==

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 The term "Mycenaean" was chosen by the archaeologist [[Heinrich Schliemann]] to describe this civilization in the second half of the nineteenth century, before Charles Thomas Newton defined its characteristics by identifying its homogeneous material culture from finds made over several centuries.  The name itself is taken from that of the city of [[Mycenae]], due in part to it being the first archaeological site excavated to reveal the importance of this civilization as a whole, as well as its prominence within the memory of ancient Greek writers, with [[Homer]] making the king of Mycenae "the chief of the Achaeans" in his epic, the ''[[Illiad]]''.
-The name that this early Greek population used to describe themselves is unknown, although it is sometimes thought that it has been preserved in the Achaeans of Homer. On the place name list in the mortuary temple of the 14th century BC. Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, the Greek mainland - or at least the south of it - is called Tanaja / Danaja<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=CK9JDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT196&lpg=PT196&dq=tanaja+egypt&source=bl&ots=RLeHgHCtZV&sig=jpgBSR40y3M9iLz4Ub-ISd6ZFRQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZyJG284_cAhUGXa0KHatUAYUQ6AEIYTAN#v=onepage&q=tanaja%20egypt&f=false</ref>. This may possibly be etymologically connected with the Danaoi (Δαναοί), one of three names for the Greeks in the Homeric epics<ref>https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Danaoi</ref>.
+The name that this early Greek population used to describe themselves is unknown, although it is sometimes thought that it has been preserved in the Achaeans of Homer. On the place name list in the mortuary temple of the 14th century BC. Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, the Greek mainland – or at least the south of it – is called Tanaja / Danaja.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=CK9JDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT196&lpg=PT196&dq=tanaja+egypt&source=bl&ots=RLeHgHCtZV&sig=jpgBSR40y3M9iLz4Ub-ISd6ZFRQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZyJG284_cAhUGXa0KHatUAYUQ6AEIYTAN#v=onepage&q=tanaja%20egypt&f=false</ref> This may possibly be etymologically connected with the Danaoi (Δαναοί), one of three names for the Greeks in the Homeric epics.<ref>https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Danaoi</ref>
 ==Chronology==
 The Mycenaean period is divided into Early Mycenaean, Middle Mycenaean and Late Mycenaean, which in southern Greece corresponds to the late Upper Helladic phases (HH I, II and III). On the islands of the Cyclades within the Aegean Sea, the Mycenaean period corresponds to the Late Cycladic period.
-The chronology of the Mycenaean civilization is based on the stylistic evolution of the pottery, documented by Arne Furumark from the stratigraphic levels of the excavated sites<ref>A. Furumark, Mycenaean Pottery, vol. II Chronology, 1941</ref>. This relative chronology remains valid, but the dating of certain "floating" intervals gave rise to some controversies in the scientific world. This is particularly true for the beginning of the Mycenaean period (recent Helladic I) where the rarity of associations of Aegean objects and products of the Near East prevent the restitution of the real chronological extent of this phase. The progress achieved in radiocarbon dating, however, makes it possible to fix the beginning of the Mycenaean civilization in the second half of the 17th century BC.
+The chronology of the Mycenaean civilization is based on the stylistic evolution of the pottery, documented by Arne Furumark from the stratigraphic levels of the excavated sites.<ref>A. Furumark, Mycenaean Pottery, vol. II Chronology, 1941</ref> This relative chronology remains valid, but the dating of certain "floating" intervals gave rise to some controversies in the scientific world. This is particularly true for the beginning of the Mycenaean period (recent Helladic I) where the rarity of associations of Aegean objects and products of the Near East prevent the restitution of the real chronological extent of this phase. The progress achieved in radiocarbon dating, however, makes it possible to fix the beginning of the Mycenaean civilization in the second half of the 17th century BC.
-The Mycenaean Period - a recent period in the Aegean Bronze Age (Helladic) - spans more than 500 years<ref>http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/aegeanchron.html</ref>. The Helladic began about 3000 BC, with the recent Helladic name (abbreviated as HR) is used for the time of the Mycenaean civilization, and has been divided by archaeologists into several successive periods:
+The Mycenaean Period – a recent period in the Aegean Bronze Age (Helladic) – spans more than 500 years.<ref>http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/aegeanchron.html</ref> The Helladic began about 3000 BC, with the recent Helladic name (abbreviated as HR) is used for the time of the Mycenaean civilization, and has been divided by archaeologists into several successive periods:
-*1650-1600 BC: HR I; beginning of the pit circle tombs (tombs B) of Mycenae; epoch marked by the Thera volcanic eruption ca. 1625 BC.
+*1650–1600 BC: HR I; beginning of the pit circle tombs (tombs B) of Mycenae; epoch marked by the Thera volcanic eruption ca. 1625 BC.
-*1600-1470 BC: HR IIA; circle of grave tombs A of Mycenae.
+*1600–1470 BC: HR IIA; circle of grave tombs A of Mycenae.
-*1470-1410 BC: HR IIB; construction of the first Mycenaean palaces towards the end of this phase.
+*1470–1410 BC: HR IIB; construction of the first Mycenaean palaces towards the end of this phase.
-*1410-1370 BC: HR IIIA1; final conquest of Crete by mainland Greeks.
+*1410–1370 BC: HR IIIA1; final conquest of Crete by mainland Greeks.
-*1370-1315 BC: HR IIIA2; ca. 1370 Palace of Knossos destroyed, then rebuilt, climax of the construction of the Mycenaean palaces;
+*1370–1315 BC: HR IIIA2; ca. 1370 Palace of Knossos destroyed, then rebuilt, climax of the construction of the Mycenaean palaces;
-*1315-1225 BC: HR IIIB1; final destruction of Knossos.
+*1315–1225 BC: HR IIIB1; final destruction of Knossos.
-*1225-1190 BC: HR IIIB2; ca. 1200 destruction of most Mycenaean palaces.
+*1225–1190 BC: HR IIIB2; ca. 1200 destruction of most Mycenaean palaces.
-*1190-1130 BC: HR IIIC1; destruction of Pylos by earthquake.
+*1190–1130 BC: HR IIIC1; destruction of Pylos by earthquake.
-*1130-1070 BC: HR IIIC2;  Phylakopi and Tiryns constricted
+*1130–1070 BC: HR IIIC2;  Phylakopi and Tiryns constricted
-*1070-1030 BC: HR IIIC3; abandonment of Phylakopi and Tiryns.
+*1070–1030 BC: HR IIIC3; abandonment of Phylakopi and Tiryns.
 ==References==

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-'''Mycenaean civilization''' refers to a late [[Bronze Age]] civilization existing from 1650 to 1100 B.C., and centered on mainland [[Greece]] and the islands of the Aegean Sea.  This civilization is particularly characterized by its palace-fortresses, its different types of painted pottery found all around the Aegean Sea, as well as its writing, with the linear B script being the oldest known writing transcribing Greek.  Since its decipherment by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in 1952, the Mycenaean civilization is, of all the pre-Hellenic Aegean civilizations, the only one known at the same time by archaeological remains and epigraphic documents1.
+'''Mycenaean civilization''' refers to a late [[Bronze Age]] civilization existing from 1650 to 1100 B.C., and centered on mainland [[Greece]] and the islands of the Aegean Sea.  This civilization is particularly characterized by its palace-fortresses, its different types of painted pottery found all around the Aegean Sea, as well as its writing, with the linear B script being the oldest known writing transcribing Greek.  Since its decipherment by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in 1952, the Mycenaean civilization is, of all the pre-Hellenic Aegean civilizations, the only one known at the same time by archaeological remains and epigraphic documents<ref>https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70035</ref>.
-The term "Mycenaean" was chosen by the archaeologist [[Heinrich Schliemann]] to describe this civilization in the second half of the nineteenth century, before Charles Thomas Newton defined its characteristics by identifying its homogeneous material culture from finds made over several centuries.  The name itself is taken from that of the city of [[Mycenae]] (Peloponnese), due in part to it being the first archaeological site excavated to reveal the importance of this civilization as a whole, as well as its prominence within the memory of ancient Greek writers, with [[Homer]] making the king of Mycenae "the chief of the Achaeans" in his epic, the ''[[Illiad]]''.
+The term "Mycenaean" was chosen by the archaeologist [[Heinrich Schliemann]] to describe this civilization in the second half of the nineteenth century, before Charles Thomas Newton defined its characteristics by identifying its homogeneous material culture from finds made over several centuries.  The name itself is taken from that of the city of [[Mycenae]], due in part to it being the first archaeological site excavated to reveal the importance of this civilization as a whole, as well as its prominence within the memory of ancient Greek writers, with [[Homer]] making the king of Mycenae "the chief of the Achaeans" in his epic, the ''[[Illiad]]''.
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	The '''Mycenaean Civilization''' was an early [[India\|Indo]]-[[European]] [[civilization]] of [[Greece]]. Their language was similar to [[Greek language\|Greek]] and their cities were at [[Athens]], [[Sparta]], [[Thebes]], and others. It is named after the city that had hegemony over most of the [[Aegean]] area at the time; [[Mycenae]].		The '''Mycenaean Civilization''' was an early [[India\|Indo]]-[[European]] [[civilization]] of [[Greece]]. Their language was similar to [[Greek language\|Greek]] and their cities were at [[Athens]], [[Sparta]], [[Thebes]], and others. It is named after the city that had hegemony over most of the [[Aegean]] area at the time; [[Mycenae]].

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-The '''Mycenaean Civilization''' was an early [[India|Indo]]-[[European]] [[civilization]] of [[Greece]].  Their language was similar to [[Greek]] and their cities were at [[Athens]], [[Sparta]], [[Thebes]], and others. It is named after the city that had hegemony over most of the [[Aegean]] area at the time; [[Mycenae]].
+The '''Mycenaean Civilization''' was an early [[India|Indo]]-[[European]] [[civilization]] of [[Greece]].  Their language was similar to [[Greek language|Greek]] and their cities were at [[Athens]], [[Sparta]], [[Thebes]], and others. It is named after the city that had hegemony over most of the [[Aegean]] area at the time; [[Mycenae]].
 It was the Mycenaean Civilization that fought the famous [[Trojan War]] of mythology.