WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Minoans and the Mycenaeans were two of the early civilizations that developed in Greece. The Minoans lived on the Greek islands and built a huge palace on the island of Crete. The Mycenaeans lived mostly on mainland Greece and were the first people to speak the Greek language.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings date to c. 3500 BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000 BC, and then declining from c.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mycenaean culture extended throughout mainland Greece, the Aegean islands and Crete.

Detailed explanation-4: -DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5, 000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete.