The Mycenaean fortress palaces at Mycenae, Tiryns, and elsewhere were warlike imitations of Minoan palaces on Crete.
The Minoans' importance for Greek history is that they supplied the model for the Greeks' Mycenaean Civilization, which arose on the mainland ca. But much Minoan trade, especially after 1600 BCE, was with the northwestern Aegean mainland now called Greece, where Greek-speaking tribes had been settling since about 2100 BCE. Minoan objects discovered by archaeologists outside Crete indicate two-way commerce with Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Levant as well as with western Italy (a region that offered raw tin and copper, the components of Bronze). Wealth came from Cretan farming and fishing, from taxes paid by subject peoples in the Cyclades and other Aegean locales, and from long-distance trade. So confident were the Minoans in their naval power that they declined to encircle their palaces with defensive walls. By about 1900 BCE the Minoans were acquiring an Aegean Sea empire and were constructing palaces on Crete-at Cnossus, Phaestus, Mallia, and Khania-that were bigger and more elaborate than any buildings outside the Near East. These people became master seafarers and built a society inspired partly by contact with the Egyptian Old Kingdom (ca. (The little island of Thera also has yielded an important Minoan site.) Evidence suggests that the Minoans emerged from a fusion between existing Cretan inhabitants and invaders from Asia Minor during the era 2900–2200 BCE. Most of what is known or can be guessed about the Minoans comes from modern Archaeology on Crete. The Minoans were not Greeks, and their language, religion, and social structures were not Greek. The Minoans (Thera, Crete, etc.) weren't Pelasgian (pre-Hellene Greeks). Posted by alTakruri (Member # 10195) on 13. This is topic Classic Greece and its population's origins in forum Deshret at EgyptSearch Forums. EgyptSearch Forums: Classic Greece and its population's origins
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