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The Late Bronze Age

Minoans, Hittites

And Myceneans

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Minoans

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Linear A

Not yet deciphered

No bilingual

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Hittites

Myceneans

Minoans

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Minoans--Knossos

Not walled

=no wars?

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No pyramids

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No large

temples

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Minoans were sea

Merchants

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These depict Crete

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Thera, a Minoan colony

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Knossos- Palace area?

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Minoans—Bull Ceremony

Left, early- c. 2000 BC

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Below, Late Minoan II-IIIa, c. 1400 BC

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Minoans—Women in Society

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Note what the Goddess under the tree is holding

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Thera Explosion

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Later coin from Crete

Showing the

LABYRINTH

The Minotaur

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Bettany Hughes The Ancient Worlds 3 of 7 The Minoans

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