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Passage:
For the first half of the twentieth century, the script known as Linear B, discovered on clay tablets at the palace of Knossos in Crete, stood as one of archaeology's most profound linguistic mysteries. Sir Arthur Evans, the prominent British archaeologist who excavated Knossos at the turn of the century, fiercely guarded the inscribed tablets from widespread scholarly access. Evans championed a prevailing historical paradigm of his own creation: he posited that the Minoan civilization was a peaceful, culturally isolated maritime empire, linguistically and ethnically wholly distinct from the warlike mainland Mycenaeans of Greece. Consequently, Evans maintained that Linear B recorded a unique, non-Indo-European language indigenous to Crete, establishing a rigid academic orthodoxy that actively deterred an entire generation of scholars from considering any potential Greek affinity.

The foundational breakthrough in piercing the script's obscurity was achieved not through immediate phonetic speculation, but via the austere structural methodology of Alice Kober. Operating throughout the 1940s, Kober meticulously tabulated the frequency and spatial positioning of individual symbols using a vast array of hand-cut index cards. Crucially, she stringently refrained from assigning speculative phonetic values or vocalizations to the characters. Instead, her purely structural, morphological analysis revealed patterned variations at the ends of certain symbol sequences. Kober identified what she termed "triplets"—groups of three distinct words that shared a stable core sequence but featured alternating terminal symbols. From this structural behavior, she correctly deduced that these variations represented grammatical inflection, proving beyond doubt that Linear B recorded a highly inflected language possessing complex noun cases and genders, analogous to Latin or ancient Greek, though she did not declare it to be Greek.

Following Kober's premature death, the architectural framework she developed—a two-dimensional coordinate grid grouping symbols by presumed shared but unknown consonants and vowels—was inherited and expanded by the English researcher Michael Ventris. An architect by training, Ventris initially shared the orthodox academic view, even publishing articles arguing that Linear B was closely related to Etruscan. However, as he continuously populated Kober's grid and observed the interlocking, mathematically precise relationships between the signs, the internal logic of the script pushed him in a different direction. He tentatively began to test the heretical hypothesis that the underlying language might be an archaic, syllabic form of Greek. By substituting known Greek phonetic values into the grid's coordinate slots, Ventris suddenly produced recognizable outputs, famously deciphering the names of key Cretan geographical sites, including Knossos and Amnisos.

Ventris's historic 1952 announcement that Linear B was indeed Mycenaean Greek entirely shattered the established Minoan paradigm. The decipherment carried profound historical implications, instantly pushing the documented history of the Greek language back by nearly seven centuries. Furthermore, the realization that Greek was the primary administrative language recorded at Knossos forced a radical, permanent reevaluation of Aegean Bronze Age power dynamics. It provided conclusive historical evidence that mainland Mycenaeans had violently or politically established administrative control over Crete during the Late Minoan period, comprehensively overturning Evans's deeply entrenched model of isolated, unassailable Minoan cultural supremacy.

According to the passage, which of the following statements regarding the decipherment and historical implications of Linear B are accurate? (Select all that apply)