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The Minoans, based on the Greek island of Crete, were the first Greeks.

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What can you cunclude from the fact that the Greeks adopted the culture of the Minoans whom they conqured?

The Greeks also absorbed the civilization of the Minoans


What can you conclude from the fact the Greeks adopted the culture of the Minoans whom they conquered?

The Greeks also absorbed the civilization of the Minoans


Why weren't the Minoans Greeks at first?

The Minoans were not Greeks, but their civilization was the first to arise in the region that later became Greece.


Who was the Minoans enemy?

It is not known who the Minoans were defeated by or if they were defeated at all. No one really knows how the Minoan civilization ended. Some scientists do believe that the Greeks had defeated the Minoans though.-x-1. The Minoans were the greeks.(?)2. The Mycenaeans defeated them.


When an where did the earliest Greeks the Minoans live?

In the 2nd Millennium BCE in Crete.


What other civilizations came into contact with the Greeks?

Notably the Persians, Minoans and the Egyptians.


Greeks relationship between the deities?

Zeus - Hera Hephaestus - Aphrodite


Where did early Greek civilization first rise up?

the early Greeks were founded by the Minoans in Greece.


Did the Minoans speak greek?

No,we cant translate their language because there is no modern equivalent. The only thing we really have our murals depicting their day to day life.


Why do historians consider the mycenaean civilizatoin to be the first Greeks?

They don't, the Minoans are the earliest Greek civilization of which we know.


What describes the relationship between Greek and Roman art?

Greeks were heavily influenced by Roman art.


Minoans were taken over by mycenaeans?

The Minoan culture was absorbed or taken over by the Mycenaean Greeks in about 1450 BC.