History Summarized: Mycenaean Greece & the Bronze Age Collapse

I'm pronouncing Mycenaean & Mycenae with a hard "K" sound because that's how it sounds in Greek, and I would not be so impolite as to mispronounce the name of the first Greek-speaking civilization in history.
(The name of "Mycenae" can be spelled Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, and I'm using the first one: mee-KEE-neh)

SOURCES & Further Reading (get ready it's a long one): "The Greeks: A Global History" by Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: An Illustrated History" by Diane Cline, Lectures from The Great Courses "Schliemann and Mycenae" & " The Long Twilight" & "The Age of Heroes" from "Ancient Greek Civilization" by Jeremy McInerney, "Bronze Age Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans" from "The Greek World: A Study of History and Culture" and "Being Minoan and Mycenaean" from "The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World" by Robert Garland, "The Palace of Nestor at Pylos and Bronze Age Greece" from "The Architecture of Power: Great Palaces of the Ancient World" by Stephen Tuck, "Discovering Mycenae and Knossos" from "Archaeology: An Introduction to the World's Greatest Sites" by Eric Cline, "Early Mediterranean Civilizations" from "The Big History of Civilizations" by Craig Benjamin, "Mycenaean Linear B - An Aegean Syllabary" from "Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity" by Marc Zender, "Early Aegean Civilizations" from "Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World" by Glenn Holland. Traill, David A “How Schliemann Smuggled ‘Priam’s Treasure’ from the Troad to Athens.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, vol. 57, no. 3, 1988, pp. 273–77. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/148361. I also have a degree in Classical Studies.

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