Short answers, pulled from the story.
Mycenaean Greece was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. It was the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization on the mainland, organized around palace-centered states with urban organization, a writing system called Linear B, and extensive Mediterranean trade networks.
Linear B was a syllabic script adapted by the Mycenaean Greeks around 1600 BC from the Minoan Linear A script. It recorded the oldest known dialect of Greek and was used primarily for palace administration. The script was first discovered by Arthur Evans in Crete around 1900 and deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952.
The ruler was called the wanax, written in Linear B as wa-na-ka. The wanax held supreme authority as chief landlord, spiritual leader, military commander, and trader. Below him served the lawagetas, whose title meant leader of the people, and a military aristocracy known as the eqeta, meaning companions or followers.
Mycenaean trade reached from the eastern Black Sea coast, where Mycenaean swords have been found in Georgia, to Ireland and Cornwall in England, where bronze double axes dating from the thirteenth century BC have been excavated. Mycenaean pottery and goods have also been identified in Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Sicily, Sardinia, southern Spain, and Bavaria.
No consensus explanation exists for the collapse of Mycenaean Greece. The main theories include a Dorian invasion from the north, the activities of the Sea Peoples who were defeated by Pharaoh Ramesses III around 1175 BC, internal conflict arising from the rigid hierarchical social structure, and natural factors including climate change, drought, and earthquakes. Recent archaeological findings tend to favor the view that post-palatial populations were survivors of the Mycenaean world rather than invaders.
Women could achieve legal independence and land rights through the religious role of priestess, one of the few such paths available to them. Other cultic titles included Key-bearer, who held authority over a deity's sacred treasury, and three categories of sacred slaves. Female workgroups attached to the palace labored in textiles and were managed and fed by palace scribes without independent land holdings or economic autonomy.