Time Line of Mycenae

• fortress at Mycenae inhabited (c. 3000 B.C.)

• early Mycenaeans arrive on the Greek mainland (c. 1900 B.C.)
• Mycenaean civilization rises ( c. 1650 B.C. )
• Mycenaean influence reaches Crete (c. 1450 B.C.)
• Mycenaeans adopt Linear A from Minoa, which evolves to Linear B (c. 1450 B.C.)
• Lion Gate of Mycenae built (c. 1350 B.C.)
• disasterous fires cripple several Mycenaean cities (c. 1250 B.C.)
• Agamemnon, king of Mycenae (c. 1200 B.C.)
• Troy destroyed after a ten year war between the Trojans and Greeks ( c. 1184 B.C. )
• Mycenaean culture succumbs to Greek expansion (c. 1100 B.C.)