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    B.C.E. Goddess Athena Archeology Literature History
    HA I-III 
     2500-1900
      -Ancient palaces at Crete 
     ca. 2000
       
    HM I-III 
     1900-1600
      -New palaces at Crete 
     ca. 1700
    -Linear A in Crete -The first invasions of the "Greeks" 
    c 1850-1600 
    -Earthquake catastrophe  ca. 1700
    HR I-II 
     1600-1400
      -Destruction of the palace of Cnossus 
     ca. 1425
    -Linear B in Crete -Minoan maritime hegemony 
    -Greeks at Cnossus
    HR III A-B 
     1400-1200
    -Table of clay with the name of Athena at Cnossus (Atana) 
    ca. 1375
    -Construction of domed tombs 
     ca. 1400 
    -Apogee of the palaces at Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos and Athens  ca.1300 
     
    -Linear B in Greece -Destruction of Troy 
     ca. 1250 
    -Catastrophe 
     ca. 1200
    HR III C 1200-1150 -Mycenaean Temple of Athena at Troy ca. ? 
    -Mycenaean Temple of Athena at Athens ca. ?
     
    -Greek Temple at Cyprus
     
     
    -Second wave of "Greeks" in the Poloponnese 
     ca. 1125 
    -Greeks at Cyprus
    Sub-mycenaen 
     1150-1050
        -Dawn of the recorded history 
     ca. 1100
     
     
     

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