The Minoans

Around 1700 B.C, a highly sophisticated culture grew up around palace centers in Crete: The Minoans. They built perhaps the single most efficient bureaucracy in antiquity. They unique culture only lasted about a few centuries. The Minoans was oriented around trade and bureaucracy with little or no evidence of a military. The people were war-like people oriented around a war -chief. The Minoans stay at the beginning of the European civilization. They civilization of the Minoans began on the island of Crete. Crete is a large island midway between Asia Minor, and Greece. The island they lived on had good fertile and a comfortable climate. The history of the scripts they wrote is lost to us. We cannot understand their hand writing or their language. The Minoans were a great mercantile people and they kept profoundly accurate records of their transactions. The group was independent until around 140 B.C. The Minoans Gods were woman and not man. Women did some sports that man did. One sport they participated in was the bull-jumping.