Rise of Minoan Civilization and Knossos Palace Complex
2000 BCE
Europe's earliest urban palace culture, Cretan thalassocracy, and undeciphered Linear A script.
Sources and References
Palais de Knossos (Crète, Musée Archéologique d'Héraklion)
Sir Arthur Evans, *The Palace of Minos at Knossos* (1921-1935)
Semantic cluster
Ancient Greece clusterMinoans, Mycenae, city-states, Persian Wars, Pericles, Alexander.
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1900 BCE
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1500 BCE
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