Bronze Age Aegean Timeline

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c. 3200 BCE - 1100 BCE

The Cycladic Civilization in Greece.
3000 BCE - 2000 BCE

First inhabitation of Mycenae area.
2000 BCE - 1450 BCE

Minoan civilization in Crete and the Aegean.
2000 BCE - 1650 BCE

Akrotiri on Thera reaches its peak of prosperity and becomes a flourishing Mediterranean trading centre.
1700 BCE

Minoan Linear A script.
1700 BCE - 1400 BCE

The culture in the Cyclades is increasingly influenced by Minoan Crete.
1700 BCE - 1100 BCE

The Mycenaean civilization dominates Greece.
1650 BCE - 1550 BCE

Eruption of Thera and consequent tidal waves, destruction of Akrotiri and other Aegean centres.
c. 1450 BCE - c. 1400 BCE

Minoan Palatial period superseded by Mycenaean.
c. 1450 BCE

Development of the Linear B script.
1400 BCE - 1100 BCE

Culture in the Cyclades is increasingly influenced by the Mycenaean civilization of mainland Greece.
c. 1250 BCE - c. 1150 BCE

Bronze Age Collapse during which the major civilizations of the Mediterranean declined or fell.