The Rise and Fall of Minoan Civilization

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2000 - 1450 BCE - Our first European civilisation takes us to the island of Crete in the Mediterranean where we learn of bare breasted ladies, bull-leaping, huge palaces and the ferocious Minotaur in the labyrinth.

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[alexgabriel]

A wonderful presentation with novelties that are important. It s an important update for Minoan Studies. No wonder the watching of the Channel already generated a lot of commentaries so far & will do so in the future! I m sending the link to many friends and I hope it will be viewed by Greek high school students to spread this important and well balanced collection of facts to the widest segment of viewers.

[titulaveau]

Very glad that this piece of history is available. Thank you!

[LittleOrla]

So grateful for your channel and the material you offer. 👍☺

[davidsusko]

100k+ years ago coast lines looked very different from what they do today. The distance from the continental coast to Crete would have been much shorter than it is currently

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[elenivargis]

EXCELLENT JOB! Keep up the great work & I'm really looking forward to your Trojan War episode :)

[strelnikoff]

Just came across this series. A real treasure. I'm hooked and will be taking them all up.

[starlessmystery]

Thank you for this. I watched partially two other lectures on Minoan culture before this and turned them off. They were not clear. You speak very well and explain things very well and I am finding this very informative. Thank you

[robm]

Thank you for the video. Much better than the heavily opinionated and subjectively dramatized videos about this subject that I have seen before.

[wernergmeineder]

Knossos is a archaeological " Disneyland ". For example the fresco in a "throne room" is the imagination of Mr. Evans and the painter he employed.

[MiroslavVarcek-dy]

Thanks for another great video. I love watching your channel, but there is one odd thing about the fall/decline of the Minoan: how can historians, and archaeologists say, that their fleet was just no more? As we know from modern times, tsunami, like the one after Thera's eruption can destroy ships only in harbours and in only very specific areas, not everywhere around the aegean. So either the destruction of fleet by a single eruption/tsunami is just bullshit, or the fleet must have been gathered somewhere in one location and be destroyed there. If we allow the possibility of a single destruction and since we know that Thera was evacuated and settlers came back to rebuild after the initial minor eruptions, I would suggest to look around the island for shipwrecks (if we have a technology to do that).

[victoriaspencer]

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[bluelithium]

The second writing system Linear B was the result of the Myceanean take over.

[Jagdtoq]

I've read a lot about the Minoans and been to Crete and I agree that trade with Egypt was very important and they were more trade orientated than one united kingdom. I does seem that they eventually all went their own way, some to Egypt, some to Cyprus and some to the Greek mainland, mainly for economic and security reasons and eventually integrated in to those cultures with their own culture simply fading away.

[fredrubble]

Unlike Pompeii, very few bodies or treasure have been found from the Thera eruption, so it's possible the island was largely evacuated prior.

[Jeremiasdagerm]

Omg looking at how that art has survived over 3000 years is freaking crazy. I almost thought they just went over it after discovering it. Like that’s amazing.

[kseniaramin]

Thanks for the historical podcast on Crete. We Enjoyed it. Comfortable pace of narration and interesting videos and images.

[ryantollmann]

Thankyou for taking the time to make this. I look forward to future similar presentations

[jerryvangemert]

Excellent presentation with a quality and clarity much needed in a debated history that needs attention on details rather than continuing and provoking debate and argument. "We simply CANNOT know everything about ourselves: 'The Human Race'. Drop the colors and see the person." jerryVG2

[commentingaccount]

Very ancient humans, such as neanderthals and their relatives could get to crete much easier due to lower sea levels during the height of the ice age, which explains the hand axes