Crete 2000 – 1450 BC 2 3 Minos Labyrinth Pasiphae Minotaur Athens Theseus Ariadne 4.

101 – MINOAN/MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION

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Bronze Age Aegean

Crete 2000 – 1450 BC

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Map of the Aegean

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Minoan Civilization

Minos Labyrinth Pasiphae Minotaur Athens Theseus Ariadne

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Thucydides Thalassocracy Sir Arthur Evans Knossos In Situ

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Throne Room at the Palace of Knossos

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Linear A

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Religion

Polytheistic Animistic Naturalistic

“Mistress of the Animals”

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Social Structure

King Royal Class Artisans Agricultural Peasants

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1450 BC Mycenaeans

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Mycenaean Civilization

1580 – 1100 BC Iliad and The Odyssey Homer 800 – 750 BC Heinrich Schliemann

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Citadels Cyclops Linear B 1100 BC Dorians Dark Age (1100 – 800 BC)