When did the Greek Civilization Started?
That really depends.Accounts of Greek history often begin with the Bronze Age civilisations of the Aegean – the so-called Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations. The Mycenaeans used an early form of the Greek language (Linear B), and archaeology suggests that both the Mycenaeans and the Minoans may have influenced the development of later Greek myth and literature (the story of the siege of Troy, for example, is probably attributable to the upheavals which marked the end of the Bronjze Age in Greece). But in reality, these citadel-based urban societies, with their divine kings and highly developed bureaucracies, more closely resembled contemporary societies in the Near East (the Hittites and Egyptians, for example) than the later Greeks. Greek culture emerged slowly over the following half-millennium, as the traditions of the Mycenaean world broke down and were reformed. Unfortunately, we are in almost complete darkness in terms of written sources or archaeology between about 1100 BCE and
