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Speech on Minoan Legends

Date Submitted: 07/17/2004 16:29:29
Category: / History
Length: 5 pages (1416 words)
Views: 140278

Good morning today I'm going to talk about Minoan Crete. The Minoans were a Bronze Age society who lived on the island of Crete. Crete is located in the Greek islands and is the biggest of all the Greek isles measuring approximately 260km x 60km. The Minoans ruled Crete from 3500 BC to around 1220 BC. There were four distinct periods in the Minoan rule.pre-palace period 3500 to 2300 BC, 1st palace period 2300 to 1700 BC, 2nd palace period 1700 …

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…people e.g the Aegean sea, Knosos and Athens. Also the names of Theseus, Aegeus and King Minos. Aegeues throwing himself into the sea is said to be put in the story to explain why the Aegean Sea is named after him. So in conclusion Minion legends are still mythical but hold a fair degree of the truth so obviously Minion legends have been modelled around the real happenings in the Mediterranean at the time.

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