WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Mycenaeans, who ruled ancient Greece from 2000 to 1100 B.C.E., were warrior peoples who established monarchies to rule their kingdoms. The king of each city-state lived in a lavish fortress⚫ palace in the capital city. Beyond the capital city was an outlying network of villages.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mycenaean Greece was dominated by a warrior elite society and consisted of a network of palace-centered states that developed rigid hierarchical, political, social and economic systems. At the head of this society was the king, known as a wanax.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the Greek world, monarchies were rare and were difficult to separate from the rule of a tyrant. The most famous monarchies were that of Macedonia, Epeiros, and Sparta. In Macedonia and Epeiros, the monarch’s rule was absolute, save for a “puppet” assembly, with few legal rights.

Detailed explanation-4: -Their system of government was that of a monarchy supported by a well-organized bureaucracy. According to myth, a King Minos, living in a palace with more than a thousand rooms, once ruled the island of Crete. In 1900 such a palace was discovered, excavated and partially restored by British archaeologist Arthur Evans.