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Early Neolithic settlements in Crete include Knossos and Trapeza. For the earlier times, radiocarbon dating of organic remains and charcoal offers some dates. Based on this, it is thought that Crete was inhabited from about 130,000 years ago, in the Lower Paleolithic , [8] perhaps not continuously, with a Neolithic farming culture from the 7th ...
- Thera Eruption
The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption...
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The Neolithic saw the invention of agriculture. The...
- Neolithic Greece
The Pre-Ceramic period of Neolithic Greece was succeeded by...
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Knossos (pronounced / ( kə) ˈnɒsoʊs, - səs /; Ancient Greek:...
- Thera Eruption
Crete ( / kriːt / KREET; Greek: Κρήτη, Modern: Kríti [ˈkriti], Ancient: Krḗtē [krɛ̌ːtεː]) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete rests about 160 km (99 mi) south of the ...
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Neolithic Period & Minoan Crete. Bronze Age – The Minoan Civilization (3000-1100 BC) The Early Iron Age 1100-650 BC. The Archaic period 650-500 BC. The Classical and Hellenistic Periods 500-69 BC. The Roman Period and the first Byzantine Years 69 BC-824 AC. The Arab Occupation and the Byzantine Years 824-1204.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe. The Bull-Leaping Fresco from Knossos showing bull-leaping, c. 1450 BC; probably, the dark skinned figure is a man and ...
