Mycenaean civilization

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The Mycenaean civilization was a Late Bronze Age Greek culture known for its fortified palace centers, Linear B script, and role as the setting for many events later immortalized in Homeric epics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bronze Age civilization
ancient Greek civilization
archaeological culture
archaeologicalPeriod Late Bronze Age
surface form: Late Helladic
associatedWithEvent Trojan War tradition
associatedWithWork Homer's Iliad
surface form: Homer’s Iliad

Homer's Odyssey
surface form: Homer’s Odyssey
capital Mycenae and Tiryns
surface form: Mycenae
chronologicalPhase Late Bronze Age
surface form: Late Helladic I

Late Bronze Age
surface form: Late Helladic II

Aegean Bronze Age
surface form: Late Helladic III
collapse part of Late Bronze Age collapse
culturalInfluenceOn Archaic Greece
Classical Greece
economy agriculture
bronze metallurgy
palace-centered redistribution
textile production
endTime c. 1100 BCE
follows Minoan civilization
hasDeity Athena
Dionysus
Hera
Hermes
Poseidon
Zeus
hasRulerTitle lawagetas
wanax
hasSite Gla
Iolkos
Knossos
Midea
Mycenae and Tiryns
surface form: Mycenae

Orchomenus
surface form: Orchomenos

Pylos
Thebes
Mycenae and Tiryns
surface form: Tiryns
hasStructure Lion Gate at Mycenae
hasTomb Treasury of Atreus
knownFor Homeric epic tradition setting
early form of Greek language
elaborate gold grave goods
extensive trade networks
fortified palace centers
megaron-type palaces
militaristic society
palatial bureaucracy
shaft graves
tholos tombs
language Mycenaean Greek
locatedIn Aegean Region
surface form: Aegean region

Peloponnese
mainland Greece
materialCulture Linear B inscriptions
surface form: Linear B tablets

cyclopean masonry
inlaid bronze swords
stirrup jars
warrior kraters
partOf Aegean Bronze Age
surface form: Aegean civilizations
politicalStructure palace-based kingdoms
religion polytheism
sharesDeitiesWith later Greek religion
startTime c. 1600 BCE
successor Greek Dark Ages
tradesWith Anatolia
Cyprus
Pharaonic Egypt
surface form: Egypt

Levant region
surface form: Levant
usesScript Linear B
writingSystem Linear B

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Lerna partOf Mycenaean civilization
this entity surface form: Mycenaean Greece
Lerna archaeologicalPeriod Mycenaean civilization
this entity surface form: Mycenaean period
Cycladic culture influenced Mycenaean civilization
this entity surface form: Mycenaean art
Helladic culture followedBy Mycenaean civilization
this entity surface form: Mycenaean Greece
Helladic culture influenced Mycenaean civilization
Nordic Bronze Age tradedWith Mycenaean civilization
this entity surface form: Mycenaean Greece
Cadmea historicalPeriod Mycenaean civilization
this entity surface form: Mycenaean period
Mask of Agamemnon culture Mycenaean civilization
Prehistoric Collection focusesOn Mycenaean civilization
this entity surface form: Mycenaean culture
Prehistoric Collection timePeriodCovered Mycenaean civilization
this entity surface form: Mycenaean period
Prehistoric Collection hasPart Mycenaean civilization
this entity surface form: Mycenaean section
Archaeological Museum of Volos exhibitsFromPeriod Mycenaean civilization
this entity surface form: Mycenaean period
Phylakopi showsInfluenceFrom Mycenaean civilization
Achaean Greece partOf Mycenaean civilization
Neopalatial period culturalInfluenceOn Mycenaean civilization