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Research Paper On Minoan Civilization

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The Minoan Civilization was a civilization that thrived in the middle Bronze Age on the small island of Crete from ca.2000 BCE until ca. 1500 BCE. Their Significant contribution dealing with their distinctive art and architecture, is what made the development of Western European civilization as it is known today. The first writing systems of Europe was the ornamental Crete Hieroglyphs, and the stylized Linear A, which was developed by the Minoans. The Minoans was a thalassocracy government, which meant that their rulership was based on the control of the seas. The Minoan religion was a religion of the Bronze Age Minoan

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