The Fall of Mycenaean Greece and the Trojan War
Tides of History
What Happened to the Palaces?
In the decades leading up to 1200 BC, there were dozens of palaces scattered across large swaths of Greece. They served as a combination of elite residents, craft production center, trade entrapo and administrative hub for surrounding territory. A century after that, however, not a single one of those palaces was left as a functioning center. The overall population of Greece would decline by between a half and two-thirds over the next century and a half.
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