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Minoan writing

They kept records using a script we call Linear A, which has never been deciphered.

Palace of Knossos

Rising at least three stories high and sprawling over nearly six acres, this "Palace of Minos," built of brick and limestone and employing unusual downward-tapering columns of wood, was a maze of royal apartments, storerooms, corridors, open courtyards, and broad stairways.

Mycenaean Civilization

About 2000 BCE. The first Indo-European Greek tribes, collectively called Achaeans, entered Greece, where they absorbed the earlier settlers and ruled from strongly fortified citadels at Mycenae, Pylos, Athens, and other sites Mycenaeans plan ed colonies in the eastern Aegean Sea (Asia Minor) and conquered Knossos about 1450 BCE. They were much more warlike, compared to to the Minoans, and traveled the seas as raidered as well as traders. No settlement in Mycenae was more than 80 miles from the sea. By 1600 B.C the Achaeans- or Mycenaeans as they are usually called- had adopted much if the Minoan culture Mycenaean women adopted Minoan fashions too Greece has little suitable land for large-scale farming, so bulk of the population lived in scattered villages The people worked either communal land or land held by nobles or kings This scattered settlement pattern caused Mycenaean to think of themselves as residents of their particular city or religion first Loyalties to the "larger Greece" came second

Art: Minoan Civilization

Art was an essential part of everyday life for Minoans. It was not a tool of priests or political leaders as in other parts of the Near East. Women enjoyed a freedom and dignity unknown elsewhere in the ancient Near East or classical Greece. Blouses were open in front to the waist. Women wore elaborate hairdos.

Mycenaean/Minoan Civilizations

The first and longer phase of Aegean civilization, which ended about 1300 B.C.E called Minoan after legendary Cretan King Minos.

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The minoans employed the first ships capable of long voyages over the open sea. Chief exports weee olive oil, wine, metalware and magnificent pottery. Say info

Crete

The narrow, 160 mile Long Island of ____ is situated between Europe, Asia, and Africa. Stimulated by contact with Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Europe, a brilliant civilization emerged here by 2000 BCE. Minoan wealth resulted from large scale trade

Religion: Minoan Civilization

What little is known of Minoan religion contrasts sharply with conditions in the Near East: no great temples, powerful priesthoods, or large cult statues of the gods. Primary deity seems to be a Mother Goddess

Aegean

the two centuries following 1300 BCE when the center of ____ political power and culture lay on the Greek mainland, is called the Mycenaean, after its most important site at Mycenae

Crete

was the center of Minoan civilization, which spread to the Aegean islands, the coast of Asia Minor, and mainland Greece.