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minoan::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | cretan |
minoan:: | Spocien Dictionary
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| Derivation | minos |
Examples of minoan
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Minoan pottery is more than a useful tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization.
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Minoan architecture could have been influenced by the frequent earthquakes on Crete.
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The older looks like the minoan palace of Knossos, although this is smaller.
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Minoan Crete was like a heart pumping at the centre of the Bronze Age trading system.
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Minoan palaces were not mighty and dominant like those in Egypt or Sumeria.
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Minoan civilization in the Mediterranean declines, but scholars are divided on the cause.
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Minoan traders from Crete were active in the eastern Mediterranean by the 2nd millennium BC.
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Minoan eruption destroys much of Santorini island, and decimates the Minoan civilization on Crete.
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Minoan traditions continue under a new administration.
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- Of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age culture of Crete; "the Minoan palace at Knossos"
- (Minoans) The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC. It was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans. ...
- A Cretan who belonged to the Minoan civilization; Of or relating to the civilization that developed in Crete from the neolithic period to the Bronze Age (about 3000-1050 BCE); Of or relating to the writing systems (Linear A and Linear B) used in Crete and later in mainland Greece; Of or relating ...
- A civilization that developed on the island of Crete c. 1600 b.c.e.; capital at the palace complex of Knossos. (p. 48)
