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Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete

Tides of History

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Crete in the Late Manoan Period

Minoan society seems to have been more open than the extremely patriarchal cultures of the arasian step and mesopotamia. The dominant deities and minoan religion seem to have been female, so far as we can tell. This was a world with broad horizons and possibilities. You didn't have to be a member of crete's uppermost elite to have seen distant cities or picked up some treasured item in a far away land. Yet this didn't and couldn't last forever. A mass volcanic eruption on the nearby island of thera wrought havoc throughout the aegean. For a society that relied so heavily on ships and the sea for trade and resources, it's

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