Greek Influence On Mycenaean Culture

Nearing the end of the bronze age, civilizations were reaching new and impressive heights in the Aegean world and Eastern Mediterranean regions. Technology advance, kingdoms rose with the advancement and order was established. Minoan civilization that came into being on the island of Crete by 2000 B.C.E was prosperous with elaborate palaces for centralized government, writing, and record keeping. Mycenaean Greece controlled the late bronze age kingdom with trade, the arts and the base of King Agamemnon who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy. The Hittites dominated modern day Turkey developed the fearsome horse-drawn war chariots and exploited Anatolia's rich deposits of copper, silver, and iron being the first to develop tools and weapons of iron. …show more content…
But in the years following1200 B.C.E all that would change. In a single generation of 50 years all of these civilizations would be almost completely wiped off the map and those that did would never be the same again. This event, known as the bronze age collapse and remains on of the largest dark spots in historians records. The mysterious Sea People, one of the clauses of this bizarre collapse. A technologically inferior group of sea faring warriors who raided the lands. With almost no ancient writings of who these pirates were historians can only assume How were the Sea people able to conquer civilizations 100 years more advanced in