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Chronology of the Homeric Epics 

BRONZE AGE (3000-1100B.C.)
c. 1800-1250   Troy VI
c. 1500-1120   Mycenaean Civilization
c. 1250 -1183   time period estimates for Fall of Troy

DARK AGES (1100-800)
c. 1100-750  Fall of Troy stories passed down in oral form
c. 1100   Doric Invasion of Greece
c. 1050-950   Greek colonization of Asia Minor (western Turkey)
c. 900 - 800 The beginning rise of the polis (city-state)