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	Minoan civilization - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Minoan civilization, ancient Cretan culture representing a stage in the development of the Aegean civilization.
		The culture was divided by Sir Arthur Evans into three periods that include the whole of the Bronze Age: Early Minoan (c.3000 BC-2200 BC), Middle Minoan (c.2200 BC-1500 BC), and Late Minoan (c.1500 BC-1000 BC).
		Early Minoan saw the slow rise of the culture from a neolithic state with the importation of metals, the tentative use of bronze, and the appearance of a hieroglyphic writing.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-minoanci.html (436 words)

	Minoan Civilization
		The Minoans were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, prior to Helladic or Mycenaean culture.
		Since the Minoan eruption is one of the largest on record, archaeologists and geologists have been arguing over why there is such a big gap between the radiocarbon date of the eruption (1628 BC by bristlecone pines and 1645 BC by the Greenland ice sheets) and the date of the fall of the Minoans (c.
		Minoan art suggests that the Minoans may have worshipped a Mother Goddess of fertility, a Mistress of the Animals, a protectress of cities, the household, the harvest, and the underworld.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/History/Minoans.html (2062 words)

	Minoan Civilization - Dilos Holiday World
		Their culture was still relatively primitive, but it had reached the stage of production, involving the cultivation of the soil and the keeping of domesticated animals.
		Very little was known about Minoan Crete before the great excavations of Greek and foreign archaeologists that began about 1900, and the discovery of the palaces of Knossos and Phaestos, with their astonishing architecture and wonderful finds.
		The earlier Minoan language was still spoken alongside it by the Eteocretans ("the true Cretans"); this fact is attested by Eteocretan inscriptions discovered in East Crete, dating from the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
	www.dilos.com /location/13406 (2855 words)

	Minoan civilization - Phantis
		The Minoan trade in saffron, which originated in the Aegean basin as a natural chromosome mutation, has left fewer material remains: a fresco of saffron-gatherers at Santorini is well-known.
		Minoan religion has not been transmitted in its own language, and the uses literate Greeks later made of surviving Cretan mythemes, after centuries of purely oral transmission, have transformed the meager sources: consider the point-of-view of the Theseus legend.
		Minoan sacred symbols include the bull and its horns of consecration, the labrys (double-headed axe), the pillar, the serpent, the sun-disk, and the tree.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Minoan_civilization (4344 words)

	Minoan civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minoan religion has not been transmitted in its own language, and the uses literate Greeks later made of surviving Cretan mythemes, after centuries of purely oral transmission, have transformed the meager sources: consider the Athenian point-of-view of the Theseus legend.
		The Minoans raised cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, and grew wheat, barley, vetch, chickpeas, cultivated grapes, figs, olives, and grew poppies, for poppyseed and perhaps opium.
		The Minoans domesticated bees, and adopted pomegranates and quinces from the Near East, though not lemons and oranges as is often imagined.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minoan_civilization (8632 words)

	Minoan Culture, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Minoan Culture, Bronze Age culture that developed on the island of Crete prior to the coming of the Greeks.
		Little was known about Minoan culture before the discovery (1900) of a great palace at Knossos by the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, who named the culture it represented Minoan, in association with Minos the legendary king.
		The destruction of Knossos and the collapse of Minoan culture coincided with the beginning of the most flourishing period of Mycenaean civilization in Greece; this coincidence suggests that the warlike Mycenaeans attacked and destroyed the Minoan civilization.
	www.levity.com /mavericks/minoan.htm (487 words)

	Minoan Culture, a Discussion by Frederick John Kluth of Kent, Ohio
		There are similarities between the priestesses of the Minoans and the Amazons that suggest the Minoans were identified with their priestesses in the same way that a sports team is identified with their mascot.
		But in the Minoan culture the men were all on the boats and the women were left to themselves.
		In the Minoan culture it was the priestesses that held sway.
	www.fjkluth.com /minoan.html (5359 words)

	Bryn LaFollette :: Arcanafex
		The date of the beginning of the Minoan Culture and especially the "Palatial" Period of that culture is a difficult issue, far from lacking in controversy.
		The name "Minoan" was given to the culture at the turn of the Century by their discoverer Sir Arthur Evans, based upon the belief that he had found the Palace of King Minos from Homeric Myth.
		There are many examples from other cultures contemporary with the Minoan culture that did only that, had access to the roofs of their houses and other buildings, which were used for various functions, such as the retting of flax in Egypt.
	www.theory.org /~arcane/content.php?topic=Minoan (7281 words)

	Minoan Palace
		Two factors are thought to have contributed to the end of the Minoan: the possible eruption of the volcano Thera and the rise of the Mycenean civilization upon Crete.
		Minoan life was ruled by a King and nobles who governed all aspects of Minoan life, including trade, art, and religion.
		The government of the Minoan was theocratic, and the religion of Minoan was matriarchal and centered around the worship of several goddess and high priestesses.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/aegean/pre-greece/minoan/minoan.html (1077 words)

	Minoan Culture
		Through their interaction with other civilizations of the middle east, the Minoans were aware and utilized the art of metalworking Their skillful jewelry creations adorned the collections of noble palace inhabitants and were even exported around the Mediterranean.
		The skill of the Minoan metal smiths was renown in the ancient world, and many artisans worked abroad in mainland Greece and the Aegean islands.
		The art of the minoans speak of a society of joyous disposition, in touch with their environment, and in awe of the logical order of the natural world.
	www.ancient-greece.org /culture/minoan-cult.html (529 words)

	bronze age
		Minoans were also at least partly literate, with a writing script later termed "Linear A." Evans' finds at Knossos were later corroborated with the discovery of a series of palaces on Crete, at Phaistos, Malia, Gournia, and Kata Zakro.
		The Myceneans were heavily influenced by Minoan culture, and adapted their writing system to produce Linear B. The implications of this for later Greek religion and mythology are still unclear.
		NOTE: The chronology of Minoan culture is based on pottery styles and a series of layers of damage or destruction to the palaces themselves.
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/achilles/age/bronze_age.html (1940 words)

	A HISTORY OF MINOAN CULTURE
		But as the Minoans developed their culture and their trading - they were the best sailors of their period in the ancient world - they also developed an unusually wealthy culture, unusual in that there was apparently little poverty from the excavations done to date.
		The Minoan pantheon always has the mother goddess as its main element, and the use of sacred symbols (the sacred horns and the double axe) became general in the early Palace period.
		Minoan culture - as distinct from early Greek culture - slowly disappeared and a return to illiteracy removed knowledge of their contributions from the Greek mindset.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Article/317356 (2095 words)

	History of Minoan Crete
		The Minoan culture's fusion with the Helladic (mainland Greek) traditions of the time eventually morphed into the Mycenaean civilization, which in turn challenged the Minoan supremacy in the Aegean.
		The affluence of the culture during this period is evident in the frescoes found in the Cretan palaces and in Thera, Melos, Kea, and Rodos.
		The end of this flourishing culture came with the destruction of most of the palaces and villas of the country side in the middle of the 15 century, and with the destruction of Knossos in 1375.
	www.ancient-greece.org /history/minoan.html (2135 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Minoan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The culture was divided by Sir Arthur Evans into three periods that include the whole of the Bronze Age: Early Minoan (c.3000 BC-2200 BC), Middle Minoan
		The earliest Minoan writing consisted of pictographs, called Cretan hieroglyphs, which date from about 2000 BC The first linear script, Linear A, dates from about 1700 BC and was also partly pictorial in nature.
		Vaphio cups, pair of gold cups of Minoan workmanship, probably dating from c.1500-1400 BC Shaped like teacups and about 3 1/2 in.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Minoan (646 words)

	Minoan and Mycenean Women
		Minoan art was intrinsically connected to the archetypes that rendered it.
		Minoan art served aesthetic and decorative purposes where Mesopotamian and Persian art were created for religious reasons.
		When Minoan civilization weakened through a series of earthquakes, the Myceneans conquered them along with the rest of the Aegean civilizations which established them as Masters over the very culture(s) that had inherently influenced their own.
	www.cyonic-nemeton.com /MinoanWomen.htm (1443 words)

	The Costume in Minoan Times
		The Minoan civilization was at its height between 1750 and 1580 B.C. (middle period).
		Minoan women had an unprecedented love of color and display in their fabrics.
		The Minoans and Myceneans greatly developed the art of jewellery-making; among their finest pieces are seals made of gold.
	www.annaswebart.com /culture/costhistory/minoan/index.html (713 words)

	The Culture of Crete: Minoan Myths, Music and Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A great deal of knowledge of Minoan culture is based on 3,000 clay tablets and elaborate wall paintings and floor mosaics, suggesting much about Minoan social relationships and religion.
		In the early Minoan period, the ceramics were characterised by linear patterns of spirals, triangles, curved lines, crosses, fishbone motives and such.
		Minoan art suggests that the this society may have worshipped a Mother Goddess of fertility, animals, cities, households, harvests, and the underworld.
	www.globalvolunteers.org /1main/greece/creteculture.htm (767 words)

	Cretian Realm of the Forgotten Goddesses
		Minoan Goddess: Daughter of the sun and the moon.
		She married as the cow-goddess the bull-god in a symbolic shamanic marriage, in pray for fertility.
		Minoan Moongoddess, which Zeus in the incarnation of a bull moved with violence to Europe.
	inanna.virtualave.net /cretian.html (311 words)

	Minoans: Minoan Visual Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's hard, in fact, to distance yourself from the visual culture and view it dispassionately, for seeing Minoan art for the first time produces the illusion that you are staring at kindred souls.
		While much of Minoan art, like almost all the art produced in the Middle East and Egypt, had religious and political functions, the bulk of the art seems to be simply superfluous decoration.
		Minoan art frequently involves unimportant, trivial details of everyday life, such as a cat hunting a heathcock, or an octopus, or representations of sports events (rather than battles, or political events and leaders, and so on).
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MINOA/VISUAL.HTM (323 words)

	Minoan Octopus Vase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Between 1700-1450 BCE, Minoan influence was widespread throughout the Aegean area, and many of the inhabited islands of the Cyclades and mainland Greece (Mycenae for example) were extensively influenced by Crete.
		The Minoan culture was named after King Minos of Crete, who ruled around the time of 1350-1250 BCE.
		Its location in the center of the Mediterranean caused it to be a center of trade and oil and wine were exported in pottery vessels in trade for food crops from the mainland.
	netra.glendale.cc.ca.us /ceramics/minoanoctopusvase.html (243 words)

	The Minoans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For the Minoans produced a singular civilization in antiquity: one oriented around trade and bureaucracy with little or no evidence of a military state.
		This unique culture, of course, lasted only a few centuries, and European civilization shifts to Europe itself with the foundation of the military city-states on the mainland of Greece.
		For the Minoans also exported their culture as well as goods, and a derivative culture grew up on the mainland of Greece, the Myceneans, who were a war-like people.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MINOA/MINOANS.HTM (611 words)

	Aegean - Aegean Art
		Minoan culture developed on Crete, in the 2nd millennium B.C. Impressive buildings, frescoes, vases, and early writing are evidence of that flourishing culture.
		Minoan religion featured a female snake deity, whose worship involved the symbolism of fertility and the lunar and solar cycles.
		A frequent expression encountered by the reader of Minoan Crete is that of the Minoan Palace...
	www.huntfor.com /arthistory/ancient/aegean_art.htm (1006 words)

	The Minoan Brotherhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Minoan Brotherhood was founded as a response to the heterosexist culture of most forms of Traditional Witchcraft prevalent in the 1970's.
		A third path within the Minoan Tradition is the Cult of Rhea, also known as the Cult of the Double Axe, which represents a meeting ground between the two traditions.
		This 3rd Path is a cooperative endeavor between the working Minoan Brotherhood and Sisterhood Elders participating in its expression and involves the form and function they wish to use to achieve their purpose in coming together.
	www.minoan-brotherhood.org /intro.html (1441 words)

	The Minoan Eruption
		Minoan ash is found throughout the Eastern Mediterranean.
		View of a 25m-high exposure of Minoan tephra in the quarry near Megalochori at the caldera cliff.
		The first pumice fall phase BO-1 overlies the dark Minoan paleosoil (lower middle of photo), followed by a thick sucession of BO-2 cross-bedded dune-forming surges and lithic-rich ash-flows of BO-3 (upper part of wall).
	www.decadevolcano.net /santorini/minoaneruption.htm (2277 words)

	Minoan civilization Summary
		The Minoans were a pre- Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, flourishing from approximately 2600 to 1450 BC when their culture was superseded by the Mycenaean culture, which drew upon the Minoans.
		Details the Contributions of the Minoan and Mycenean Civilizations, as well as the contributions of Heinrich Schliemann, and Sir Arthur Evans.
		Minoan civilization: Fresco from the "Palace of Minos", Knossos, Crete
	www.bookrags.com /Minoan_civilization (187 words)

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