The Helladic is a period of ancient Greek Civilization. The term is commonly used in archaeology and art history. Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. ... Importance and applicability Archaeology is the study of human nature and attempts to illuminate the question of what it means to be human. ... Art history usually refers to the history of the visual arts. ...

The Helladic period is subdivided as:

• The Early Helladic (c.2800 - 2000 B.C.)
• The Middle Helladic (c.2000 - 1500 B.C.)
• The Late Helladic (c.1500 - 1100 B.C.)

The Early Helladic is marked by the arrival in Greece of an agricultural population that did not speak an Indo-European language. Very little is known of this society except that they came from northern Anatolia and they worked metal. Their arrival coincides with the beginning of the Bronze Age in Greece. The Early Helladic period corresponds in time to the Old Kingdom in Egypt. Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολή anatolē or anatolí, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish associated with Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization complexity and achievement - this was the first of three so-called Kingdom periods which mark the high points of civilisation in the Nile Valley (the...

The Middle Helladic begins with the wide-scale settlement in Greece of a people known as the Minyans, who spoke an Indo-European language. The Middle Helladic period corresponds in time to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. See Minyan (disambiguation) for other meanings of the term. ... The Middle Kingdom is a period in the history of ancient Egypt stretching from the establishment of the Eleventh dynasty to the end of the Fourteenth dynasty, roughly between 1986 BC and 1633 BC. The Beginning The Middle Kingdom is usually dated to when Pharaoh Mentuhotep II from Thebes defeated...

The Late Helladic is the time when Mycenaean Greece flourished. During this time a language recognizable as a form of Greek was spoken and Cyclopean tombs and citadels were built. The Late Helladic corresponds in time to the period of the New Kingdom in Egypt. Mycenaean Greece, also known as Bronze Age Greece, is the Late Helladic Bronze Age civilization of ancient Greece. ... Map of Bronze Age Greece as described in Homers Iliad Mycenaean is the most ancient known form of the Greek language, spoken in Mycenae and on Crete in the 16th to 11th centuries BC, before the Dorian invasion. ... Cyclopean architecture was a characteristic building style of Mycenaean Greek civilization. ... The New Kingdom is the period in Egyptian history between the 16th century BCE and the 11th century BCE, covering the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of Egypt. ...

The decline of Mycenaean culture at the end of the Late Helladic heralded the start of the Greek Dark Ages. The Greek Dark Ages (ca. ...

See also

• Minoan civilization
• Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean Greek language, Linear B
• Aegean civilization, History of Greece