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en-wikipedia-org-5342		Greece - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	34974	4091	69	From the eighth century BC, the Greeks were organised into various independent city-states, known as poleis (singular polis), which spanned the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Philip II of Macedon united most of present-day Greece in the fourth century BC, with his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquering much of the ancient world, from the eastern Mediterranean to India. Greece is home to the first advanced civilizations in Europe and is considered the birthplace of Western civilisation,[e][30][31][32][33] beginning with the Cycladic civilization on the islands of the Aegean Sea at around 3200 BC,[34] the Minoan civilization in Crete (2700–1500 BC),[33][35] and then the Mycenaean civilization on the mainland (1600–1100 BC).[35] These civilizations possessed writing, the Minoans using an undeciphered script known as Linear A, and the Mycenaeans writing the earliest attested form of Greek in Linear B.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5342.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5342.txt