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| c. 3500 BC |
| | | Olives are cultivated in Crete and will provide, in the form of olive oil, one of the main staples of Mediterranean trade | |
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| c. 3000 BC |
| | | The sculptors of the Cyclades produce stylized and formal figures, mainly female, in white marble | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | Knossos, and other such palaces, are built for dynasties in Minoan Crete | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | Trade is carried on from Crete round the Mediterranean as far west as Sicily and in the east down to Egypt | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | Administrative records and accounts at Knossos are kept in a script, as yet undeciphered, known as Linear A | |
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| c. 1600 BC |
| | | A bull-fighting fresco in the palace of Knossos is linked with the island's cult of the bull | |
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| c. 1525 BC |
| | | The eruption of a volcano, on the island of Thera, entombs and preserves houses with frescoes in the Minoan city of Akrotiri | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | Texts written at Mycenae, in the script known as Linear B, are the earliest surviving version of Greek | |
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| c. 1425 BC |
| | | All the towns and palaces of Crete, except Knossos itself, are destroyed by fire - probably by invaders from Mycenae | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | The massive architecture of Mycenaean cities such as Tiryns is said in Greek legend to have been built by one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes | |
|  | Tiryns, Greece
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