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When people think of ancient Greece images of philosophers such as Plato or Socrates often come to mind as do great warriors like Pericles and Alexander the Great but hundreds of years before Athens became a city a Greek culture flourished and spread its tentacles throughout the western Mediterranean region via trade and warfare Scholars have termed this preClassical Greek culture the Mycenaean culture which existed from about 20001200 BC when Greece along with much of the eastern Mediterranean was thrust into a centuries long Dark Ages Before the Mycenaean culture collapsed it was a vital part of the late Bronze Age Mediterranean system and stood on equal footing with some of the great powers of the region such as the Egyptians and Hittites