... placing Crete as his birthplace, long after the goddesses were administering to the people. The next early Greek civilization is called Mycenaean, named after its capital located on the Peloponnesus. This culture dominated the Greek world from about 1600 to 1100 b.c.e., and was illuminated five hundred years later in Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey, clearly following the oral traditions of ancient societies. Again it ... was Schliemann, who started digging here in 1876 and uncovered what he called King Agamemnon's palace and his famous gold mask, supposedly artifacts from the Mycenaean Age...

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... also based their number system on the number 60, which led to the use of hours and minutes in the way we use them today. V. A. 1. The epic poems of Homer tell us most of what we know about the era of 1200-800 bc. The Iliad tells how the Greeks besieged and destroyed Troy. The Odyssey tells what happened after the Trojan War to the king of Ithaca, a leader of Greece ... . It is likely that the world the two poems describe ... was similar to actual period, a sort of dark period. Through the poems we see a society of warriors and petty ... ...

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