CIVILIZATION
MINOAN
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Question
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they have an alphabet like the Phoenicians-but it has not been translated
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they built walls to protect their cities and were the first culture to practice “bull-fighting”
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they were obsessed with death and sadness-recovered artifacts commonly reflect sad scenes
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They began as a Phoenician colony-but eventually rose in power to outlasts the Phoenician civilization in Syria and Lebanon
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Detailed explanation-1: -Both the Minoans and the Phoenicians were renowned sea traders, and dominated the seas at the same time without any sign of fighting between them. Both societies mixed the roles of their trading house, king’s residence, and administrative center.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Minoans were a society that lived on the island of Crete for over five hundred years (2000-1500 BCE). The Phoenicians, on the other hand, were a civilization that occupied the coastline of the eastern Mediterranean Sea from around 1500-539 BCE.
Detailed explanation-3: -Phoenician alphabet, writing system that developed out of the North Semitic alphabet and was spread over the Mediterranean area by Phoenician traders. It is the probable ancestor of the Greek alphabet and, hence, of all Western alphabets.