Timeline 2 The Bronze Age.
Figure 4 The word for “night” in some Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.
Clearly, then, the Aegean region was not unoccupied when the people we know as the Greeks appeared
on the scene. Whom did the Greeks encounter when they arrived and what happened to the earlier
populations of Greece and the islands when the Greek-speakers entered the region? Unfortunately,
because we are dealing with a period from which no written records survive, we are not in a position to