Mycenaean Greece

State · 1,500–1,101 BCE · at its largest around 1,220 BCE

Late Bronze Age Greek palace culture centred on Mycenae, Pylos and other strongholds, which wrote an early form of Greek in Linear B.

On its lands while it lasted

Minoan civilization (c. 3,000–1,100 BCE): Bronze Age civilization centred on Crete, known for palace complexes such as Knossos, vivid frescoes and the undeciphered Linear A script.
Mycenaean Greece (c. 1,750–1,050 BCE): Last phase of the Bronze Age in mainland Greece, dominated by palace centres such as Mycenae, Pylos and Tiryns, which collapsed around 1200 BCE.
Thermos (1,500–189 BCE): Capital of Aetolian League (284 BCE–189 BCE).
Linear B script (c. 1,450 BCE): Syllabic script used to write Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek; it was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952.
Lion Gate of Mycenae (c. 1,250 BCE): Monumental entrance to the citadel of Mycenae, crowned by a relief of two confronting lions; one of the few surviving monumental sculptures of Bronze Age Greece.