mirrored file at http://SaturnianCosmology.Org/ For complete access to all the files of this collection see http://SaturnianCosmology.org/search.php ========================================================== 4500-2000 B.C. Movements of Indo-European peoples into Europe 4000-3000 B.C. Sumerian Civilization in Mesopotamia, presently Iraq 2000 B.C. Assyrian and Babylonian Civilizations in Mesopotamia 3000-1250 B.C. Minoan Culture on Crete 1600-1500 B.C. Shaft graves at Mycenae 1400 B.C. Earliest Mycenaean palaces 1300-1200 B.C. High point of Mycenaean Culture 1370 B.C. Fall of Knossos on Crete 1180 B.C. Sack of Troy VIIA; Homer's Troy possibly Troy VI 1200-900 The Dark Ages: Disturbances across the Aegean region; Mycenaeans become wanderers; dispossessed of their homes, their civilization destroyed, they settle on the mainland of Greece and Asia Minor (Turkey), preserving remnants of their culture. 800-500 B.C. Development of city-states 750-700 B.C.Composition of Iliad and Odyssey; Homeric poetry recorded in writing after Greeks learn to write again, using Phoenician alphabet modified with vowels. [wl1.gif] [aw.jpg] [back.gif]