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• Learning Target:
– I clearly understand how the Minoans
influenced the Greeks!
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Could it all be just a legend
with no place to base it out
of??
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King Minos
Zeus & Europa = Minos’s Parents
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What was the name of the
civilization that lived here?
• Minoans - named
after King Minos who
received his name
from Minos
Kalokarinos the first
archaeologist to
excavate in Crete.
• 2800BCE
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King Minos
Deal with
Poseidon helps
create the
Minotaur
Death of the
Minotaur
(Theseus –
Thebes)
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Thanks for the cool story, but
what were they really about?
•Main Idea – The
Minoans earned their
living by building
ships and trading!
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The Minoans
• Minoan Civilization begins on the island of
Crete around 2800 B.C.E.
– Knossos was their capital and a very rich
city
• 1st civilization in the region that later
became Greece.
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A Back in the Day Song
&
Knossos
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The Minoans
• 2000BCE-
– Drove off the pirates
• Used a long wooden beam and prow to fight
& slimmer ships that were faster with three sails
– Minoans controlled the Mediterranean Sea!!
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Minoan Ship Recreation
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Minoan Cities
• No Walls!
• Famous for their grand palaces!
– Center of the city palace instead of ziggurat
– 5 stories high
– Running hot and cold water
– Heated rooms
– Flushing toilets
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Minoan Cities
– Near the center/palace – sea captains,
merchants and shipbuilders
– Farther away – artisans
• Houses
– Entrance on the roof (like the
Mesopotamians)
– Later they added wooden doors and
windows with parchment (thin oiled animal
skin)
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Rulers & Religion
• Priest –kings
– Ruled by talking to gods and representing
them on earth
• Polytheistic
• Main God/Goddess
– Mother Earth
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Mother Earth
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Minoan Sports
• Minoans loved sports
• Built world’s first arena
– Could seat 500!!!
• Boxing Matches – Men
• Chariot hunts - Women
• Bull Leaping – Men and Women
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Bull Leaping
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• Around 1450 B.C.E. Minoan civilization
disappears!
• Most likely a cataclysmic event.
– Tsunami & a Volcano
– Mycenaeans took them over
• The Greeks claim it was the fault of the
MINOTAUR!
Fall of the Minoans