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Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Gruesome Blood Bucket
It was sometimes thought that the Minoans were a peaceful society especially throughout the 20th century but with discoveries like this gruesome discoveries is that really kind of shattering that idea? Absolutely I think it really exploded the idea after Arthur Evans's idea of the Minoan that they were somehow a peaceful civilization. I don't think that they went around sacrificing people all the time I think that when you get warning tremors in Crete sometimes you wonder if a big earthquake is on the way and maybe in these extreme circumstances that was when human sacrifice to his practice.
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