what is the mycenaean civilization?

Mycenaean Greece (c. 1600 BC – c. 1100 BC) is a cultural period of Ancient Greece taking its name from the archaeological site of Mycenae in northeastern Argolis, in the Peloponnese of southern Greece. Athens, Pylos, Thebes, and Tiryns are also important Mycenaean sites. The last phase of the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece, it is the historical setting of much ancient Greek literature and myth, including the epics of Homer.[1]

Quite unlike the Minoans, whose society benefited from trade, the Mycenaeans advanced through conquest.
 
They were the second Greek civilization to appear, betwwen 1600 B.C.E to 1100 B.C.E, the first being Minoans who lived on Crete. They were Indo- Europeans who migrated to the Ionian area( around were Athens is). They eventually conquer the Minoans and they take their writing style, linear a, and formed linear b, which we have been able to translate. Unlike the Minoans who advanced through trade, they grew from conquest. It was dominated by a warrior aristocracy. Their decline was from the collapse of the Bronze age, Dorian invaders, and natural disasters. According to legend, they also conquered Troy.
 
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