Mycenaean Greece Dominates

Mycenaean Greek is the earliest attested form of the Greek language.^¹ It was spoken on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece.^¹ The language is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script first attested on Crete before the 14th century BC.^¹ Most inscriptions are on clay tablets found in Knossos, in central Crete, as well as in Pylos, in the southwest of the Peloponnese.^¹ Other tablets have been found at Mycenae itself, Tiryns and Thebes and at Chania, in Western Crete.^¹ The language is named after Mycenae, one of the major centres of Mycenaean Greece.^¹