CIVILIZATION
MINOAN
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Question
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Archaeologists have found concrete evidence of Minoan civilization only on Crete and a nearby cluster of islands originally called Thera, now known as ____
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Quios
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Cyprus
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Santorini
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The findings suggest they arose from an ancestral Neolithic population that had arrived in the region about 4, 000 years earlier. The British archeologist Sir Arthur Evans in the early 1900’s named the Minoans after a legendary Greek king, Minos.
Detailed explanation-2: -Akrotiri was a Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera). The civilization of this ancient settlement was affiliated with the early Cretan culture.
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