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Minoan to Mycenaean Period
Events | Time | Additional Explanations |
2600 BCE | Minoan Prepalatial Period. | |
Destruction of Minoan settlements. | 2000 BCE | Minoan Protopalatial Period Early (1900-1700 BCE) |
Early Middle Cycladic (2000-1600 BCE) | ||
Middle Helladic Period or Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550) | ||
Destruction of Minoan palaces Settlement of Akrotiri, Thera Grave Circle B at Mycenae. | 1700 BCE | Minoan Neopalatial Period (1700-1400) |
Eruption of Thera volcano (sometime between 1627 and 1600). | 1627 BCE | |
Grave Circle A at Mycenae Legends: Argo Voyage, Heracles, Oedipus. | 1600 BCE | Late Bronze Period or The Heroic Age (1600-1100) |
Tholos Tomb at Mycenae | 1550 BCE | Late Helladic Period (1500-1100) |
Linear B writing (1450-1180) | 1450 BCE | |
Mycenaean Palaces Evidence of expanded Mycenaean trade at Levand. | 1400 BCE | Minoan Postpalatial Period (1400-1100) |
Palace of Knossos destruction. | 1370 BCE | |
"Sea Peoples" begin raids in the Eastern Mediterranean. | 1300 BCE | Mycenaean Culture (1300-1000) |
Trojan War (1250 or 1210). | 1250 BCE | |
Destruction of many Mycenaean palaces. Doric Invasions (1200-1100). Sea Peoples (1200-1100) |
1200 BCE | |
1180BCE | Sub-Mycenaean Period (1180-1050) | |
Destruction of Miletus and resettlement. | 1100 BCE | Sub-Minoan Period (1150-950) |
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