The Minoans (c.2000-1500 B.C.E.

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The first Greek civilization was that of the Minoans on the island of Crete just south of Greece. Quite clearly, the Minoans were heavily influenced by two older Near Eastern civilizations, Mesopotamia and Egypt, by way of the Cycladic Islands, which formed natural stepping stones for the spread of people from Greece and of civilized ideas from the Middle East.

The Mycenaeans (c.1500-ll00 B.C.E.)

were Greeks from the mainland who took advantage of the Minoans' weakened state to conquer Crete and assume Minoan dominance of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. They were a vigorous and active people who engaged in trade and some piracy over a wide area extending from southern Italy in the west to Troy and the Black Sea in the northeast 3000 BC 3000 BC - Santorini's first inhabitants were the Minoans in 3000 BC, also known as the early Cycladic period. Their society was largely influenced by the nearby Minoan Civilization of Crete and a proof of that is definitely the wall-paintings found at excavated Akrotiri ... Show more From Spiridakos Rent a Car & Luxury Boat Cruises www.santorini-holidays-guide.com/santorini ... 2000 BC 2000 BC - In about 2000 BC, the Minoan civilization began to decline. No one is really sure why this happened. Scholars do know, however, that some Minoans migrated to and settled on the mainland of Greece. After a time, these settlements grew into powerful city-states. Show more From Differentiated Lessons and Assessments: Grade 6 - Related web pages books.google.com/books?id=0D5JP56eBj8C&pg ... 1700 BC - The Middle Minoan period came to an end with the sudden destruction ot the Minoan palaces of Knossos, Phaestos, Malia and Zakros in 1700 BC. Although there is some disagreement, most archaeologists believe that the destruction was caused by the eruption of a ... Show more From Crete - Related web pages books.google.com/books?id=w3fk4UpHiXYC&pg=PA38 ... 1650 BC - The End of the Minoan culture may have come very quickly. In 1650 BCE the volcano on Thera errupted in what has been described as the largest volcanic eruption in the last 10000 years. In addition to killing perhaps half of the Minoans, the blast may have ...

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Show more From Minoan Culture and its Women - Related web pages www.fjkluth.com/minoan.html 1628 BC - The Minoan civilization was destroyed by the volcanic eruption of the island Thera (now called Santorini) in the Fall of 1628 BC. In addition to destroying most life on the island of Thera, the volcanic eruption produced a tidal wave ( tsunami) that devastated ... Show more From Genetic Enslavement - Related web pages books.google.com/books?id=RNhLAW615QgC&pg ... 1600 BC - The Minoans lived on the Aegean island of Crete, and had a naval influence that likely subjugated the Mycenaeans. Around the year 1600 BCE, it is believed that a volcanic eruption on the island of Santorini near Crete devastated the Minoans. The resulting ... Show more From History of Greece/Print version - Wikibooks, open books for an open world - Related web pages en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_Greece ... 1500 BC - In 1500 BCE the Island of Crete experienced a volcano eruption which destroyed Minoan trade and prosperity. It is speculated this event weakened Minoan because it destroyed their ships and interrupted their agricultural progress. Due to this, the success that ... Show more From Political contrasts of Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations - by Leigh Related web pages www.helium.com/items/847076-political ... 1450 BC - In about 1450 BC, Minoan society was destroyed. Excavations show that their great palaces were burned by invaders, and it seems clear that they were early warlike Greek invaders from the mainland who overwhelmed the peaceloving Minoans. Some historians ... Show more

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The Minoans (c.2000-1500 B.C.E.)

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100 YEARS LATER 1996 BC Isaac is born to father the contestants, namely his two sons, Jacob/Israel and Esau/Edom. Jacob expresses the Godly instincts of goodness, compassion, the golden rule, etc. while Esau merged with the Cain race to express the wicked instincts of lying, murder, exploitation, deceit, and a relentless hatred of Jacob's descendants, the Israelites. God's pageant is a contest between good and evil, performed by these two races of contestants. Other races are pawns in the game. ca. 1457 AD Gutenberg fathers the Printing Press, the most valuable weapon of the contest. The break from Edomite controlled Roman Catholicism was only possible by making the Bible available to the people who could then see the truth for themselves, and expose the lies they had been taught by the murderous priests of the Roman Catholic church. It might be worth noting here that the Roman Catholic church has never yet rescinded the anti-Christ lies which they promoted during those centuries. They have even gotten worse, for at the Council of Trent in 1546, a century after Gutenberg, they proclaimed that the Pope is God on earth. ca. 60 YEARS LATER: THE NEW CONTEST BEGINS 1936 BC Esau/Edom & Jacob/Israel born. Evil one born first, then the Good (like Cain and then Abel)