Aegean, ih JEE uhn, civilization consisted of four cultures that flourished on the islands and shores of the Aegean Sea between about 3000 and 1100 B.C. These cultures are called the Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, and western Anatolian cultures. The Cycladic culture developed on a group of islands called the Cyclades. The Minoan culture arose on the island of Crete, and the Mycenaean culture flourished on the mainland of Greece. The city of Troy, in the northwestern part of ancient Anatolia (now Turkey), was a center of western Anatolian culture.