HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Knossos
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Sparta
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Crete
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Thrace
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Detailed explanation-1: -Crete is the largest island in Greece and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Detailed explanation-2: -When the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans discovered the 4, 000-year-old Palace of Minos on Crete in 1900, he saw the vestiges of a long-lost civilization whose artefacts set it apart from later Bronze-Age Greeks.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Minoan civilisation is considered the first ‘great’ civilisation in human history. It was found on the island of Crete and named by Sir Arthur Evans after King Minos. Greek mythology states that King Minos was the son of Zeus and Europa, a Phoenician princess.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Minoans were not Greeks nor do they appear to be closely related. What seems clear however is that they helped to shape the early Greek civilization, later immortalized by Homer and other Greek poets.