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But, on closer examination, it has become increasingly clear that the period as a whole, across the region, defies simple characterizati.
A critical period in the long history of the region and its people and culture, they witnessed the end of the Mycenaean kingdoms, with their palaces and Linear B records, and, through the Postpalatial period, the transition into the Early Iron Age. 1250 to 1150 BC in Greece and the Aegean are often characterized as a time of crisis and collapse.
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