Troy II
After the fire that destroyed Troy I about 2500 BC, the same people rebuilt their town on the ashes of the fire, but this time bigger and better. They built a big stone wall, with great gates in it, around a palace or temple (we don't know which it was) in the megaron style. But most of the people still lived in little houses outside the stone walls.
These Troy II people knew how to make wheel-made pottery, but they still didn't use bronze. They did trade with people like the Greeks who lived to their west, across the Aegean Sea.
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Around 2300 BC, though, the people of Troy II seem to have had some sort of revolution, where the palace or temple was partly destroyed, and in its place people built ordinary houses inside the stone wall. Then about 2250 BC there was another big fire, and that was the end of Troy II.
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