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Aegean civilizations summary

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warrior armed with a figure-of-eight shield and boar's-tusk helmet
warrior armed with a figure-of-eight shield and boar's-tusk helmetWarrior armed with a figure-of-eight shield and boar's-tusk helmet, ivory relief, c. 1400–1200 bce, from Delos; in the Archaeological Museum, Delos, Greece.

Aegean civilizations, The Bronze Age civilizations that arose and flourished c. 3000–1000 bce in the region bordering the Aegean Sea. They include Crete, the Cyclades, the Greek mainland south from Thessaly, including the Peloponnese, and Macedonia, Thrace, and western Anatolia. The most significant were the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The term also sometimes refers to Neolithic civilizations in the same region c. 7000–3000 bce.