Introduction Mycenaean empire, also known as the Mycenaean Greece, is the last phase of the use of bronze metal during the Bronze Age period. ... From the trading activities people of the Mycenaean society were evidently flourishing with wealthy and this was recorded from the expensive items such as bronze weapons, 2583 storeroom goblets and golden jewelry that were owned by members of the upper class. ... They were also responsible for the invasion of Levant and Anatolia.The attack by the Sea People saw a success and prosperity mainly because it came at the time of the invention of the Iron...

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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. ... Not much is known about women in bronze-age Mycenaean culture, but it is thought they were not as well regarded as in ancient Minoan society. ... By the Homeric Age Zeus became superior to Hera, undoubtedly showing women's declining status. ... After the Mycenae Era, Greece went through a "dark ages.... The next period is known as the Archaic Age, circa 800-500 b.c.e. ...

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VOCABULARY Archaeology: the scientific study of ancient people and cultures principally revealed through excavation. Cromlech: a circle of megaliths. Henge: a Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan. Used for rituals and marking astronomical events. Megalith: a stone of great size used in the construction of a prehistoric structure. ...

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