Ancient Greece

There were two major ancient Greek people that we know about around 1250 B.C., the Mycenaean culture on the mainland Greece and the Minoans on the Island of Crete. The mainland culture, the Mycenaean’s, consisted of a few cities called Mycenae, Argos, and Athens. These Mycenaean cities used mostly two languages, Linear A and Linear B. We have translated Linear B but not Linear A. The Mycenaean’s architecture was mostly practical and defense oriented, not made to be particularly pretty. The Minoan culture was founded on the island of Crete, which is the biggest of the Balkan islands and the most southern island. It is only 160 miles long and 37 miles wide. Seeing as there were a lot more threats on the mainland and not many on the island the buildings and cities of Crete were made to be a lot prettier than the mainland temples. Crete is most well known for the legend of the Minotaur, a half man, half bull creature that ate people and was trapped in the Labyrinth where it would be fed Athenian people. Then, Theseus, an Athenian prince, killed the Minotaur. After this there is a gap in the history of Greece that lasts until 750 B.C., about 500 years, because of the fall of the Mycenaean culture and no one took any records of this time, giving it the name the Dark Ages. But then history starts back up as expected.