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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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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | The so-called Treasury of Atreus, at Mycenae, is the most spectacular of the beehive tombs of this period | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | Wine features prominently in the Mycenaean society of this time, as remembered and depicted in Homer | |
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | Mycenae prevails as the dominant power throughout the Peloponnese and the entire Aegean | |
|  | Mycenae, Lion Gate
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | The earliest known suit of armour, made of bronze, survives from a tomb in Mycenaean Greece | |
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | Mycenaean merchants trade as far west as Spain and have links with neolithic societies far away in the interior of Europe | |
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| c. 1200 BC |
| | | Mysterious raiders from the sea cause chaos throughout the eastern Mediterranean, from Greece to Palestine and Egypt | |
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