Tamadun Minos

Tamadun Minos merupakan tamadun Zaman Gangsa yang muncul di kepulauan Kriti dan berkembang sekitar abad ke-27th BC sehingga abad ke-15 BC.^[1] Ia dijumpai pada permulaan abad ke-20 melalui usaha pakar arkeologi British Arthur Evans. Will Durant merujuk kepadanya sebagai "hubungan pertama dalam rantaian Europah."^[2] Penduduk awal Kriti menetap seawal 128,000 BC, semasa Pertengahan zaman Paleolithik.^[3]^[4] Bagaimanapun, hanya sehingga 5,000 BC tanda pertanian maju muncul.

Peradaban Minos terkenal dengan perdagangan lautnya dan kota-kotanya yang teratur. Orang-orang Minos memiliki sistem pertanian yang mengutamakan zaitun dan anggur. Agama mereka lebih banyak memuja dewi. Peradaban Minos digantikan oleh Tamadun Mikenai.

^ "Ancient Crete" in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, offers a scholarly guide to the academic literature on this topic.
^ Durant, The Life of Greece (The Story of Civilization Part II, (New York: Simon & Schuster) 1939:11.
^ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/science/16archeo.html Wilford, J.N., On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners, The New York Times, Feb 2010
^ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/ancient-seafarers/ Bowner, B., Hominids Went Out of Africa on Rafts, Wired, Jan 2010

[1] "Ancient Crete" in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, offers a scholarly guide to the academic literature on this topic.

[2] Durant, The Life of Greece (The Story of Civilization Part II, (New York: Simon & Schuster) 1939:11.

[3] ttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/science/16archeo.html Wilford, J.N., On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners, The New York Times, Feb 2010

[4] ttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/ancient-seafarers/ Bowner, B., Hominids Went Out of Africa on Rafts, Wired, Jan 2010

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