ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that shortly before 1600 BC a military force arrived in Greece, equipped certainly with chariots, bows and spears, and probably with Type A rapiers. That argument rests on the premise that in the second millennium BC horses and chariots could be carried on ships, in some cases over long distances. The chapter also argues that the arrival of militarism on the Greek mainland was an event, or a short series of events, at the center of which were military chariots. A conquest such as this must have had a prologue: the intruders, that is, must have known something about the Greek mainland and about the Cretan thalassocracy and its limitations. On the Greek mainland were some of the same attractions that brought militarism, and very likely new languages, to other parts of Europe. Attarissiya lived toward the end of the fifteenth century BC, however, long after the first signs of militarism on the Greek mainland.
