Mycenean Civilization

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Mycenean Civilization
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Mycenean Civilization

• Invaders were Greek speaking Indo-European tribes
  that had moved onto the peninsula about 1900 BC

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Mycenean Civilization

• Invaders were Greek speaking Indo-European tribes
  that had moved onto the peninsula about 1900 BC
• Invaders built walled cities around palaces at
  Mycenae, Thebes, and other locations in southern
  Greece

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Mycenean Civilization

• Borrowed much from Minoan Civilization
• Artisans created pottery, jewelry
• Records kept in writing style of Minoans
• Took over Minoan sea trade routes to Egypt,
  Phoenicia, Sicily and southern Italy
• About 1300 BC, ruler of Mycenae may have formed
  Achaean Empire from several kingdoms

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