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	ATLANTIS - The Waves That Destroyed the Minoan Empire (Atlantis) - Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		The obliteration of the Minoan empire could not pos sibly have been the result of revolution or invasion from the outside.
		Of all the great palaces and Minoan settlements on the north and east sides of Crete, Knossos was probably the one that escaped destruction from the waves.
		Minoan Crete for two centuries was weakened by the numerous earthquakes that destroyed its cities.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /AtlantisDestruction.html (3023 words)

	Minoan civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 knew domesticated bees, and adopted pomegranates and quinces from the Near East, though not lemons and oranges as is often imagined.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minoan_civilization (2990 words)

	Encyclopedia: Minoan civilization
		An empire (also known technically, abstractly or disparagingly as an imperium, and with powers known among Romans as imperium) comprises a set of regions locally ruled by governors, viceroys or client kings in the name of an emperor.
		The Minoan goddess probably encompassed many different aspects, including Mother Goddess of fertility, a Mistress of the Animals, a protectress of cities, the household, the harvest, and the underworld, and more.
		Minoan civilization Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos (November 4, 1901 - October 1, 1974) was one of the premier Greek archaeologists of the 20th century, whose most notable discovery was the site of the Minoan port city on the island of Thera destroyed and preserved by the massive volcanic eruption, ca 1650-1600 BCE, spawning...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Minoan-civilization (7068 words)

	Bronze Age - Wikinfo
		The Minoan empire appears to have coordinated and defended the bronze-age trade.
		There is evidence that several Minoan client-states lost large populations to extreme famines or pestilence, so the trade network is believed to have failed at some point, preventing the trade that would have previously relieved such famines and prevented some forms of illness (by nutrition).
		It is also known that the bread-basket of the Minoan empire, the area north of the Black Sea, lost population and probably some degree of cultivation in this era.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Bronze_Age (2173 words)

	Bronze Age
		The Minoan empire appears to have coordinated and defended the bronze-age trade.
		There is evidence that several Minoan client-states lost large populations to extreme famines or pestilence, so the trade network is believed to have failed at some point, preventing the trade that would have previously relieved such famines and prevented some forms of illness (by nutrition).
		It is also known that the bread-basket of the Minoan empire, the area north of the Black Sea, lost population and probably some degree of cultivation in this era.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/b/br/bronze_age.html (1268 words)

	Minoan culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Minoan culture existed on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age, prior to classical Greek culture.
		The most important Minoan art is in their ceramics, but they are also known for their frescos and their stone carving.
		In the middle minoan period naturalistic designs such fishes, squids, birds and lillies were usual, they could be painted, in relief or even in the overall shape of the vase.
	brandt.kurowski.net /projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=780 (663 words)

	The Minoan Glories of Crete and Santorini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Indeed, the imagery of Minoan art reflects that of Egypt, with people often depicted from the side, though Minoan art is more fluid and human than the stiff Egyptians’.
		Equally important to understanding the Minoans is a visit to the Iraklion Archaeological Museum, where the cultural treasures of the Minoans are displayed, from Knossos and elsewhere in Crete.
		This area is convenient for visiting some of the Minoan palaces such as Malia and Phaistos, exploring the thousands of windmills on the Lassithi Plateau, or visiting the Diktaen cave, the legendary birthplace of Zeus.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/Dec2002/Crete.htm (2972 words)

	Ancient civilizations
		The scale of migrations launched by the fall of Minoan civilization is to large for a feudal country.
		Minoan art is typical for populistic countries, where the money for art comes from large number of quite rich people, not only from the monarch's court.
		Minoan artifacts were found by archeologists in different places around the west coasts of Mediterranean Sea.
	www.geocities.com /historymech/rewritten.html (1668 words)

	Minoan Religion and the Minotaur, A Question by F. John Kluth of Kent, Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The goddess is primary in Minoan religion and this primacy was defeated at the time of Theseus by the heirachy of Zeus, yet the goddess came from Crete, not as Aphrodite, Not as Atemis or Hera, but as Athena.
		The bull in the fresco was caonnected to the symbol of the bull for the Minoan religion.
		The Minoans were seen to encourage this sport because the playful attitude of the youth appears to dominate the bull in the same way that the Minoans needed to dominate nature.
	www.fjkluth.com /minos.html (9368 words)

	Bronze Age -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is also known that the bread-basket of the Minoan empire, the area north of the (A sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans) Black Sea, lost population and probably some degree of cultivation in this era.
		The individual colonies of the Minoan empire then met accidents of drought, famine or war, and had no access to the far-flung resources of an empire to recover.
		Thera is about 40 miles north of (The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC) Crete, which was at the time the capital of the Minoan empire.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/bronze_age.htm (1376 words)

	Fallen Gods
		The Minoan Empire has been experiencing a golden age, but now, for no apparent reason, the village of Akrotiri on the island of Thera is being attacked by fiery demon bulls that age whatever and whomever they touch to dust within seconds.
		The Doctor tells her that the empire will fall, but far in the future, when everyone responsible for the crimes against Athens is long dead.
		A story set in the empire believed to be the historical basis for the legend of Atlantis; a race of gods who exist outside Time, trapped within crystals by ancient mathematicians; and a king who will live for hundreds of years after seeing the end of his empire’s golden age.
	www.drwhoguide.com /telos10.htm (2848 words)

	The UnMuseum - The Lost Continent of Atlantis
		Archaeological excavations have shown the Minoan Crete was probably one of the most sophisticated cultures of its time.
		Overnight the powerful Minoan Empire was crushed and Crete changed to a political backwater.
		Not everyone accepts the Minoan Crete theory of the story of Atlantis, but until a convincing case can be made for some other place, it remains science's best guess.
	www.unmuseum.org /atlantis.htm (1088 words)

	HomeSchool
		The Minoans were peaceful: very little evidence of military activity was found in their ruins.
		The only major Minoan structure surviving the waves and earthquakes was the palace at Knossos, far enough inland to escape the tidal waves.
		The Minoan Civilization was a great and peaceful culture based on the island of Crete, which reigned as long ago as 2200 B.C. The Minoan island of Santorini, later known as Thera, was home to a huge volcano.
	www.rain.org /homeschool/atlantis-about-1.html (3423 words)

	WI:Longer-Lived Indus Valley Civilization - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board
		While most of The Minoan Aristocracy manages to escape to The city of Enrisoss (Sicily), which served as the temporary capital of the nation, and Strangely the navyâs size double to what it was before the eruption.
		Many Minoan citzens long to return to their homeland Crete, and when they do they find their palaces infest with Mycenaeanens how have literally overun the island.
		Minoan civilation is in decline as more barbarian raid and pillage Crete, and Minoan colonist establish a strip of cities on the west coast of Hispaina.
	www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=4112 (7576 words)

	Sicilian Peoples: The Romans - Best of Sicily Magazine - Sicily in the Roman Empire, Syracuse, Agrigento, Agrigentum, ...
		Their empire --though vast-- was only half as large as the Mongol Empire, but more than twice as influential in shaping society on a global scale long after its demise.
		Constantinople (capital of the Eastern Roman Empire) considered herself the second or "new" Rome and Moscow claimed to be the third.
		Officially, Sicily was part of the Western Empire after AD 395, but following the fall of centralized power in Rome (the city was sacked in 410 and Odoacer formally assumed power in 476), a period of foreign rule by Vandals and Ostrogoths (from AD 468 until 535) ensued in Sicily.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art159.htm (2184 words)

	Crete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		An early center of civilization, Crete was the home of the Minoan Empire in the middle of the first millenium BCE.
		Partially destroyed during the middle Minoan era due to the explosion of the volcano of Thera appr.
		Minoan civilization disrupted, and the palace burnt, c.
	www.hostkingdom.net /crete.html (2716 words)

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		The Persian Empire started to decline about two centuries earlier, and for a long time the only real power in its army were Greek mercenaries (about 70 years before Alexander 10 thousands of unpaid Greek mercenaries had marched without problems thorough half of Persian Empire).
		The Aztec Empire had just started to decompose (was not so decomposed as the Persian Empire in times of Alexander, but if Greeks were united, they could conquer Persian Empire or at least its large part, a 100 years before).
		Simply speaking: in the early history of the China Empire when the export was very profitable and there was a high demand for peasants (people were more valuable than the capital) to colonize South, there was no natural economic conditions and reasons for a religion system to evolve.
	www.geocities.com /historymech/hmss1.doc (17166 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)

	KRITI NET - MINOAN CIVILIZATION, Intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Knossos, capital of the Minoan empire, is the near paradise that every traveler clamors to reach -- for a few weeks of relief from the strife and suffering that is the norm of so much of the world.
		Minoan traders are wily businessmen and they have almost no competition, accept among themselves.
		In the Nile Delta, Minoan traders long ago established a vigorous colony to handle the high-volume trade between the two countries.
	www.kriti.net /intro.html (559 words)

	Learn more about Civilization in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is also central to the political beliefs of Samuel P. Huntington who argues that the defining characteristic of the 21st century will be the interaction and conflict between civilizations.
		The concept of empire overlaps with that of "civilisation", so the empirical description of the 500-year old Western empire by Noam Chomsky and the more theoretical analysis by Negri and Hardt constitute other contemporary analyses of civilisations.
		The Maya, for example, while achieving a high degree of civilization, were never an Empire which imposed their power over other peoples of Mesoamerica, whereas Teotihuacan and the Aztecs fit that criteria.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ci/civilization.html (609 words)

	13 City of Knossos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		He called the civilisation Minoan, after the legendary King Minos, and divided it into 3 periods: Early, Middle and Late Minoan.
		The Minoan empire had rule over the whole island and several others, as well as over parts of the continent.
		Minoan religious beliefs are reflected in Greek mythology, and the connection between Minoan and Crete and the oldest Greek sanctuaries has been conclusively proved.
	archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz /virtualtour/Knossos/13.htm (111 words)

	Minoan Genius
		Ever since their discovery a century ago by Sir Arthur Evans, the Minoan Linear A texts of ancient Crete have exercised a magnetic pull upon linguistic scholars.
		Finally, it has to be said that Gordon's interpretations of the Minoan texts are beyond the merely fanciful.
		I do not think that Gordon's interpretation of Minoan as Basque is one of the monuments upon which the reputation of the Oxford University Press has been built.
	www.tlg.uci.edu /~opoudjis/Play/minos.html (883 words)

	BBC - History - The Fall of the Minoan Civilisation
		Three and a half thousand years ago, the tiny Aegean island of Thera was devastated by one of the worst natural disasters since the Ice Age - a huge volcanic eruption.
		Then archaeologists found clay tablets that proved the Minoan civilisation survived for about 50 years after the eruption.
		It was home to thousands and a flourishing trading post for the Minoans until disaster struck.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/greeks/minoan_01.shtml (519 words)

	Introduction to Crete
		It is however known for the Minoan civilization that flourished from 2600 to 1100 B.C. The island is full of relics of the Minoan ages the most famous being the palaces at Knossos and Festos.
		The Minoans established a naval empire in the Mediterranean during this period.
		The Dorian years were marked by the first appearance of iron tools, and the deterioration of the Minoan Empire to various city-states.
	www.interkriti.org /intro.htm (2751 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete - Rodney Castleden - Paperback - REPRINT
		Since their rediscovery in the early 1900s, Minoans have been defined by a series of cultural traits: elegance, gracefulness and sophistication, lovers of nature, in harmony with their neighbors.
		Since Sir Arthur Evans first brought attention to the Minoans in the early 1890s, the people of Bronze Age Crete have become a fixture in the study of European prehistory as well as a source of romance and myth in the popular imagination.
		Expanding on the interpretation he began to formulate in his highly acclaimed work, The Knossos Labyrinth, Castleden uses the latest evidence to discuss the nature of the Minoan empire, the problems of interpreting the Mycenean conquest of Crete, and the influence of their society on Cretan prehistory.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=t82qO2MAG3&isbn=041508833X&TXT=Y&itm=4 (339 words)

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