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and economy that we find in the Mycenaean world
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revealed both by the archaeology and by what we learn
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in the records provided by Linear B.
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The remains and records of these strongholds make it clear
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that the political organization was an imitation of oriental monarchy.
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The sovereignty--the sovereign at Mycenae rather, and at Pylos,
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another important site for the period,
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and at Thebes, which was another one,
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was somebody that the tablets refer to as the Wanax,
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and that is the same as a later Greek word
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which drops the "W" at the beginning, anax.
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As we shall see