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At Stonehenge, constructed and altered over many centuries, the largest stones are put in place
A ring of large standing stones is raised in England at Avebury, now a village in Wiltshire
Knossos, and other such palaces, are built for dynasties in Minoan Crete
Trade is carried on from Crete round the Mediterranean as far west as Sicily and in the east down to Egypt
The cemetery at Los Millares in Spain contains more than 100 beehive tombs
Administrative records and accounts at Knossos are kept in a script, as yet undeciphered, known as Linear A
The Beaker people arrive in Britain, bringing several desirable commodities - including horses, alcohol and bronze
Over many centuries Indo-European tribes (Greeks, Germans, Balts, Italics, Celts) move into new territories throughout western Europe
A bull-fighting fresco in the palace of Knossos is linked with the island's cult of the bull
The eruption of a volcano, on the island of Thera, entombs and preserves houses with frescoes in the Minoan city of Akrotiri
The Slavs settle in the regions of eastern Europe and western Russia
Indo-European tribes, known collectively as Aryans, enter India from the northwest
Indo-European tribes, speaking Baltic languages, settle in the regions of modern Lithuania and Latvia
Texts written at Mycenae, in the script known as Linear B, are the earliest surviving version of Greek
All the towns and palaces of Crete, except Knossos itself, are destroyed by fire - probably by invaders from Mycenae
The massive architecture of Mycenaean cities such as Tiryns is said in Greek legend to have been built by one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes
The so-called Treasury of Atreus, at Mycenae, is the most spectacular of the beehive tombs of this period
Mycenae prevails as the dominant power throughout the Peloponnese and the entire Aegean
The earliest known suit of armour, made of bronze, survives from a tomb in Mycenaean Greece
Mycenaean merchants trade as far west as Spain and have links with neolithic societies far away in the interior of Europe
Palaces in Mycenae are destroyed, probably by the so-called Sea Peoples from the west and south coasts of Turkey
Mysterious raiders from the sea cause chaos throughout the eastern Mediterranean, from Greece to Palestine and Egypt
Mycenae and other states of the Peloponnese are overwhelmed by invading Dorian Greeks
Athens, not reached by the invading Dorians, becomes a surviving outpost of Mycenaean civilization
With the encouragements of Athens, non-Dorian Greeks migrate to form colonies on the west coast of Anatolia
