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	Sicilian Peoples: The Ancient Greeks - Best of Sicily Magazine - Greek Sicily, Hellenic Society in Sicily.
		Greek society was influenced by the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean (particularly the Assyrians, Babylonians and Egyptians).
		Greek art and philosophy, the foundation upon which much of Roman culture was built, came to dominate the Mediterranean world for centuries, eclipsed by Christian movements in the age of the Roman Empire.
		Beyond the islets of the Aegean Sea, Greek influence enveloped the islands of Cyprus and Crete, and kissed the shores of coastal Ukraine (Crimea), France and Spain.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art153.htm (2126 words)

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		The fall of the Myceneans plunged Greece into her Dark Ages from 1100 to 800 BC, obliterating the memories of her own past except for what was remembered vaguely in song, poetry and myth.
		Greeks had gone into debt as they tried to maximize their profits by investing in vineyards and olive groves, which would produce wine and olive oil which in turn had a higher price than mere grain.
		However, perhaps because of their strong misogyny, the Greeks were biased against the passive sex of adult citizens because the “receiving” partner was associated with women and thus his prestige and status declined.
	www.austincc.edu /rebhist/greece.html (3619 words)

	Linear A
		While the related writing named Linear B was deciphered in the 1950s by Michael Ventris as representing an ancient form of Greek, Linear A remained unsolved.
		Though the two scripts share many of the same symbols, using the syllables associated with Linear B in Linear A writings produces words that are unrelated to any known language.
		This language has been dubbed Minoan, and corresponds to a period in Cretan history prior to a series of invasions by Mycenean Greeks[?] some time around 1400 BC.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/Linear_A.html (155 words)

	The Myceneans: Mycenean Religion
		In general, later Greek religion distinguishes between two types of gods: the Olympian or sky-gods (which you have all heard of in some form or another), and the gods of the earth, or chthonic gods—these chthonic gods are almost all female.
		The Greeks believed that the chthonic gods were older than the Olympian gods; this suggests that the original Greek religion may have been oriented around goddesses of the earth, but there is no evidence for this outside of reasonable speculation.
		Somewhere in the shades of the centuries between the fall of the Mycenean civilization and the end of the Greek Dark Ages, the original Mycenean religion persisted and adapted until it finally emerged in the stories of human devotion, apostasy, and divine capriciousness in the two great epic poems of Homer.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MINOA/MYCREL.HTM (432 words)

	Were the founders of Ancient Greeks nordics? - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Greeks have similar facial features to the Nordic Europeans but their skin, hair and eye colour is darker, which explains why their statues may have looked similar to the Nords.
		Greek culture itself was derived from the Middle East, not from Northern Europe.
		The Greeks of that time were not "primarily" descended from Dorians, they were primarily descended from the Mycenean Greeks but the Dorians did influence their phenotypes to an extent.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=58760 (1887 words)

	Minoan and Mycenean Women
		The Greeks believed that the female chthonic gods were older than their Olympian gods and many speculate that the Greek god-system evolved from the Minoan Earth goddess.
		Greek settlement composes the Middle Helladic period between 2000 BC and 1550 BC.
		Evidence suggests that Mycenean city dwellers were forced to relocate because of the economic collapse and that Greece reverted to a non-urbanized, tribal culture.
	www.cyonic-nemeton.com /MinoanWomen.htm (1443 words)

	The Myceneans
		The Late Helladic Period, ~1550 BC-1150 BC The transition between the Middle and Late Helladic periods is indistinguishable, for the Greek settlers had begun building the rudiments of a civilization earlier in the millenium.
		The Greeks of this age are the Myceneans proper; for four centuries their culture thrived until it crumbled into the emptiness of history.
		For the Mycenean age found its voice in the poetry of Homer in a single defining event: the Mycenean war against Troy, a city in Asia Minor.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MINOA/MYCENAE.HTM (1071 words)

	Sicilian Peoples: The Sicanians - Best of Sicily Magazine - Sikania, Sikelia, Thapsos, Castelluccio, Prehistoric Sicily.
		One need only look to the rather negative Greek and Roman characterizations of the neighboring Phoenicians and Carthaginians to appreciate the fact that historical bias and revisionism are nothing new.
		(Mycenean script has been found on some pieces of pottery.) On a pre-historic level, it seems probable that they were descended, for the most part, from Sicily's Bronze Age inhabitants.
		For example, similarities of southeastern Sicilian prehistoric cultures to Maltese, Mycenean, Minoan or north African ones, or similarities between the cultures of northeastern Sicily and the Lipari Island cultures having links to mainland Italic ones.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art141.htm (2219 words)

	Classical Greece - The Minoan and Mycenean
		Greek civilization developed from a combination of two earlier civilizations, Minoan and Mycenean.
		The Myceneans were landowners who gave the king horses, chariots, weapons, wheat, livestock, etc. in exchange for protection.
		The Myceneans were violent, since they were on the mainland and were under the constant threat of invasion.
	members.tripod.com /~mr_sedivy/greece.html (379 words)

	Tracing Dan - Part 1 Chapt 1
		At all events the Greek account may be understood as saying that a small number of Danites came to Greece, intermarried with local rulers, gave their name to an early already present segment of the population, and not much more than that.
		One final thought is that early Greek history (in its formative period) has it that native groups known in Greece-proper as Pelasgians and as Ionians on the west coast of Anatolia (Turkey), together with the Aeolians (a related group), after the coming of the Danaioi, created Mycenean civilization.
		Mycenean civilization was destroyed and its leaders fled to the north to re-establish themselves as Dorians.
	www.giveshare.org /israel/baucum/dan1.html (3398 words)

	Cyprus History and Districts with short country briefs
		This Greek migration got lot of attention and till date the fact of how the great Greek warriors of the Trojan War went to Cyprus to settle down is remembered.
		The Mycenean Greeks had a tremendous effect on the inhabitants of the island.
		The Greeks dominated the region in terms of culture, language and population.
	www.ezilon.com /about-cyprus.htm (628 words)

	DEVELOPMENT OF ANCIENT GREECE: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The Persians were unaccustomed to individual fighting and were not trained for mass defense and the attack of the Greeks.
		A uprising of Greek soldiers in Bactria and imminent war in Greece.
		Greek Culture came to be the possession of the urban upper class -- it became exportable to the rest of the Greek World.
	www.hoocher.com /mr.j'spage/developmentofancientgreece.htm (4495 words)

	Informat.io on Linear A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		As the Minoan language is lost to the modern day, it is hard to be certain whether or not a given decipherment is the correct decipherment, or merely gibberish being generated by an incorrect mapping of symbols to sounds.
		However, the simplest approach to decipherment may to be to simply presume that the values of Linear A match more or less the values given to the fully translated Linear B script, used for Mycenean Greek.
		Around the same time, M. Tsikritsis, a Greek computer scientist and a text analysis specialist used a statistical and machine comparison of Linear A and Linear B symbols to conclude that Linear A was an early aeolic dialect of Greek, and essentially a form of Linear B with a variety of archaisms.
	www.informat.io /?title=Linear_A (1237 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Plato`s Atlantis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		I believe that El Argar was supported by Mycenean Greeks and that can explain not just the appearence of Greeks in the narration of Atlantis but also the western travels of Herakles in other legends, which are telling the same in a diferent manner.
		Greeks never fought against Tartessos (apparently it was destroyed by the Phoenicians) but they may well have been involved in the geopolitical struggles in Iberia in a more glorious past.
		At least Mycenean influence is clear in El Argar (and more speculatively in the undefined groups of the SW), while there was no Greek influence at all in the time of the destruction of Tartessos (pressumably around 800 BCE).
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8257&PN=1 (2628 words)

	Ancient Chinese History Thread - Objectivism Online Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		They made advances in various fields, for example astronomy, which the later Greek scientists used as a starting point for their subsequent thinking, and if you've seen some of their steles, the Persians were not incompetent at cutting stone and making depictions either.
		Mycenean writing was conceptually derivative from a different, earlier non-Indo-European (Greek) source (Minoan at the minimum; Egyptian or possibly Sumerian ultimately).
		When comparing Mycenean Greek writing and Ancient Chinese, I was not making a comparison between the Western civilization and China, but only making a point that there were civilizations out there who started writing long before the Chinese did.
	forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=5068&st=25 (1418 words)

	Greece
		Greek-speaking Achaeans invaded the Greek peninsula from central Europe circa 2000 BC, displacing and enslaving the Pelasgians (aboriginal non-Greek inhabitants of Greece, Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands).
		The Greek cities of Asia Minor, which had been absorbed into the Lydian and Persian empires during the 6th century BC, revolted (499 BC) and were crushed, despite help from Athens.
		Greek borders were finally settled with large shifts of minority populations.
	www.occultopedia.com /g/greece.htm (1053 words)

	CYPRUSBEDS.NET
		During the Ionian Greek revolts of the 4th century BC, Citium led the side that was loyal to Persia and was besieged by an Athenian force in 449 BC.
		The Kition City Kingdom was established by the Mycenean Greeks in the 13th century BC when it enjoyed the dual position of a rich port and a major centre of the copper trade.
		The Greeks, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Franks, the Venetians, the Turks, the British and today all the annual three million travelers and tourists entering Cyprus from the town' s Airport, Port and the Marina.
	www.cyprusbeds.net /article.php?id=68 (1773 words)

	How Much Do You Know About
		When the Trojans were destroyed, the Achaean Greeks established their own cities along the Asia Minor coast and this land became known as Ionia, and we refer to the Greeks living there as Ionian Greeks.
		The Dorian Greeks invaded the Peloponnesus (the peninsula) and destroyed the city of Mycenae and its civilization.
		The Greek stopped the Persian force of between 150,000 and 200,000 men for two days until the Persians were led by a Greek traitor up a side path to the Greek rear.
	www.wvup.edu /Academics/humanities/Oldaker/how_much_do_you_know_greeks.htm (2911 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Were the Greeks indigenous?
		According to this, the Greeks were indigenous, didn’t come to Greece from northern Europe, all the tribes in Greece, the Pelasgians etc were greek and that after the sinkage of Aegeis, the some Greeks managed to survive on the top of the mountains of Aegeis which are the present islands of Aegean.
		The greek civilization of the 5th century B.C.,the Golden Age of Pericles and Athens,it all begun back in the 12th-11th century B.C. That was the time wenn the ionian,aeolian and dorian "tribes" came from the north and settled into the mainland and the aegian isles.
		The Egyptians told Solon that the Greeks of the classic times didn't know or remember their own past because after the earthquake the people who survived were peasants without a high level of education.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5902&PN=1 (5196 words)

	Homer
		The Iliad and Odyssey [Unicode Greek] Homer in the original Greek.
		The Illiad is based on events which probably occurred around 1000 B.C.E. The Mycenean Greeks of this era were contemporaries with a Bronze age city in Asia Minor on the Aegean coast of what today is Turkey.
		These are remnants of a huge epic cycle which encompassed the whole mythological and legendary history of the Greeks, of which the battle for Troy is the centerpiece.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/homer/index.htm (679 words)

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		Since the Mycenean Greeks settled here over 3,000 years ago establishing the Greek civilization on the island, we have seen Phoenicians, Romans, Crusaders, Franks, Venetians and other conquerors who have all left their mark here and helped to shape the island's special character.
		Aphrodite, mythological goddess of beauty, was born in the foam of our warm seas, and spawned a huge cult in pagan times.
		Greek temples, Roman, remains, Byzantine churches and Crusader castles, inspire fascinating excursions.
	steelhead.seattleu.edu /students/2005/fall/ecis31502/caculita/cyprus (192 words)

	History of Greece
		A year later, the Greeks under the Spartan general Pausanias obliterated the Persian army at the Battle of Plataea.
		Ostensibly its purpose was twofold: to build and maintain a large navy to retrieve the Greek city-states that were still occupied by Persia, and to establish an effective defense against another Persian attack.
		In 416 BC the Sicilian city of Segesta asked Athens to intervene in a squabble it was having with Selinus, an ally of Syracuse.
	www.geocities.com /the_temple_of_ares/history.html (1506 words)

	Project Troia
		For the hellenistic Greeks and the Romans there was no doubt that this was the place of the holy Ilios of Homer, who also used Troia as a second name.
		Many scholars of ancient Greek and most Hittitologists agree that the bronze age naming can be tied to the positioning of the Hittite Wilusa at the same place in the northwest of Turkey.
		The widely spread seats of power of the Mycenean Greeks with a high degree of probability would not have had the potential for such a navy in late bronze age.
	www.uni-tuebingen.de /uni/aft/eng/faq.html (1650 words)

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		1450-1350 on the Greek Mainland and at Knossos.
		Mycenean Greece Peloponnessos: "the island of Pelops." The near-island of southern Greece, connected to central Greece only by a narrow isthmus.
		Geometric sculpture:The earliest real example of Greek sculpture is the terracotta centaur found in the cemetery at Lefkandi, and usually dated to the 10th century.
	www.csubak.edu /art/art381/greekho1.doc (3642 words)

	chronology of boys' clothing : ancient civilizations -- Greece chronologies
		Greeks in the Mycenean age were organized into small, waring kingdoms.
		To accoimodate the growing trade, marketplaces began to appear in villages and the evolving political structures came to be called a polis or city state.Greece during the Classical period was composed of independent city-states, the largest and most important was Athens, followed by Sparta and Thebes.
		Although these city states were relatively small a fierce spirit of independence and desire for freedom enabled the Greeks to defeat the massive Persian armies and navies in some of the most notable battles in human history.
	histclo.com /chron/ancient/gre/acg-chron.html (975 words)

	Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The earliest of the Greek settlements was at Gela on the southern coast, founded by migrants from Crete and Rhodes at a date fixed by the ancient chronographers as -689.
		The decorative motifs used by the Greek colonists are once more under strong Mycenean influence; a detailed comparison of the motifs in use in the seventh century with those on Mycenean ware caused much amazement among art historians, but not even a suggestion of how the motifs could have been transmitted through the Dark Ages.
		All the evidence we have examined argues against a long gap between the Mycenean age in Sicily and the arrival of the Greek colonists in the seventh century.
	www.varchive.org /dag/sicily.htm (539 words)

	The Minotaur
		It is quite possible that Mycenean Greeks might have been a little jealous of the power, the artistry, and the extraordinary craftsmanship of the Minoans before the explosion, whereas afterwards, it was the Greeks who were in control.
		It is therefore not unreasonable for the Classical Greeks to have attributed to Minoan Crete elements that their Mycenean ancestors had known from sea traders who came not from Crete, but from the Levant.
		The civil administration must have been destroyed, and the Myceneans were able to impose their administration, either as a friendly gesture of disaster relief, or as an unfriendly occupation.
	www.mmtaylor.net /Holiday2000/Legends/minotaur.html (2129 words)

	Late Bronze Age Greece - History for Kids!
		Greek graves from this time excavated at Mycenae (my-SEEN-ay) have a lot of gold cups and jewelry and beautiful swords in them, which are now in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.
		In addition to maybe working as soldiers for other countries, the Greeks seem to have sailed around the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea picking fights with people on their own, and taking their gold, and probably also taking the people they met as slaves.
		Homer says that when the Greek soldiers came back from the Trojan War they found that Greece was in very bad shape, with a lot of robbers and crime.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/history/latebronze.htm (665 words)

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