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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. 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. 1200 BC |
| | | Palaces in Mycenae are destroyed, probably by the so-called Sea Peoples from the west and south coasts of Turkey | |
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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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| c. 1150 BC |
| | | Mycenae and other states of the Peloponnese are overwhelmed by invading Dorian Greeks | |
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| c. 1100 BC |
| | | Athens, not reached by the invading Dorians, becomes a surviving outpost of Mycenaean civilization | |
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| c. 900 BC |
| | | With the encouragements of Athens, non-Dorian Greeeks migrate to form colonies on the west coast of Anatolia | |
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| 776 BC |
| | | The traditional date for the first athletic contest at Olympia | |
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