ACS 103 Lecture Notes - Megaron, Indo, Streams
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The culture of creets politically its part of greece a poorer part in classical period was a backwater. Nothing was known about there culture until 20th century. Mentioned a guy named minos who kept monster called minitor. He exacted a tribute of 50 young men and women who were to fight or to be eaten by the initior. A young man named thesus volunterred to go when he went to the underground tunel took a ball of string when he got to the minitiro somehow killed the minitor and got free. Brit guy said lets go dig in knossoss found the civilization very advanced and wealthy realized lasted for a good amount of time. Discovered in the kreets writing hieroglyphic a and b and linear a and b. Archealogists in the end were able to determine number of periods they called it in minoah number of periods were identified.