CIVILIZATION
MINOAN
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Minoans
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Mycenaeans
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Minoan civilization began to weaken around 1450 BC. Archeologists think this might have been due to a natural disaster such as an earthquake. The Mycenaeans took over the islands of the Minoans and adopted much of the Minoan culture.
Detailed explanation-2: -“These results suggest the Minoan civilization arose 5, 000 years ago in Crete from an ancestral Neolithic population that had arrived in the region about 4, 000 years earlier, ‘’ he said.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Minoans lived between 2600 B.C.E. until 1400 B.C.E. The Mycenaeans lived between 1600 B.C.E. until 1100 B.C.E.
Detailed explanation-4: -And Phoenician writing is a remote descendent of Babylonian cuneiform. It is true that Minoan and Micenaean civilizations existed on the territory of later Greece, but they are not as old as civilizations of Sumer and Egypt.