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Events relating to aegean civilization
Olives are cultivated in Crete and will provide, in the form of olive oil, one of the main staples of Mediterranean trade
The sculptors of the Cyclades produce stylized and formal figures, mainly female, in white marble
Knossos, and other such palaces, are built for dynasties in Minoan Crete
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
Texts written at Mycenae, in the script known as Linear B, are the earliest surviving version of Greek
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
Not for the first time, the city of Troy is destroyed - on this occasion probably by Mycenaean Greeks
Mycenae and other states of the Peloponnese are overwhelmed by invading Dorian Greeks