Mycenaean Civilization

The first enormous civilization on mainland Greece actu on the wholey bloomed in the demise of the Minoan Civilisation. The Mycenaean Civilisation (1900 1100 BC) is also known as the Achaean Civilisation. This is due to the Indo-Germanic migrants, who not only settled on mainland Greece merely also suitable to the Minoan way of living. Independent city-states such as Pylos, Corinth and of course Mycenae which was the almost powerful of them all, was a characteristic of the Mycenaean Civilisation. Mycenae was also the city of the known figure Agamemnon, who was 1 of the leaders who landed Troy.These city-states were ruled by kings, whose palaces were on hilltops, enclosed within huge walls, which were very easy to defend. Mycenae with its impressive render of Lions became the dominating power in the Peloponese. These palaces soon appeared all over Greece, but unlike those on Crete, these were all huge fortifications and much more unwieldy to penetrate. As with the Cycladic Civilisation, an impressive legacy was also left by the Mycenaean Civilisation in the form of gold jewellery and ornaments.A assembly of these treasures can be seen at the National Archaeological Musuem in Athens. The Mycenaean were also literate and wrote in a script known as elongate B. This script is an early form of Greek which is unrelated from elongate A from the Minoan Civilisation of Crete. It has however been deciphered. Other examples of the script Linear B have also been found on Crete, which has led to the casualty that the island may have been invaded by the Mycenaean people at slightly 1500 BC. At around 1400 BC the palace of Knossos was destroyed on Crete, as well as destruction all over the island.This wide hand out destruction has led many to believe that Crete was not attacked by a foreign force, but that a revolt against the Mycanaean rulers had probably taken place. Mycenaean artifacts have also been discovered in Italy, Eygpt, Asia Minor and North Syria. I t is probably that they had permanent strongholds in some of these places as their influence seems so strong. The defeat of Troy was accomplished with the Mycenaean city-states joining together to protect their morose Sea muckle routes.During 1200 BC the decline of the civilization had began, with many Mycenaean structures being destroyed. The situation now in Greece was very similar to the one that had happened on Crete following the destruction of Knossos. It is difficult to grasp at how all of the city-states actually declined. Some have put forward that due to trade with the east stopping, many overseas settlements were lost. Others believe that along with factors such as famine and epidemics, internal battles and overpopulation, the reason was when the civilization was overtaken by the Dorians.