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5th hour Minoans 2011-2012 **//Minoan Civilization//** **//__Introduction:__//** During the Paleolithic era, there was a civilization that was smarter and more advanced than eras of its time. From around 2600-1400 B.C existed a civilization that no one today knows the name of, but anthropologists just simply named them the Minoans. Most people believe that the cause of the sudden fall, or destruction of the Minoans was because of a volcanic eruption or a massive earthquake. (Elser and Ellis,1998. www.ancient-greece.org, 2003-2011)

This is the palace of Knossos. This palace was on of the biggest during the rain of the Minoans. (www.dilos.com. Unknown author. 1995-2011)

**//__Religion:__//** Minoans believed in multiple gods, not just one. One of the gods they worshiped was a mother goddess. This belief was based on a picture that most Minoan people had, which showed a women more free in public and may have enjoyed more freedom and rights than women in other civilizations. Minoans also had sanctuaries in their palaces to worship their gods, and there is where they would pray to them. (Benton, 1998)

This is a picture of the mother goddess of the Minoans. The Minoans based their beliefs on this goddess. (Sinnott. 2011)

**//__Government:__//** Minoans didn’t have a democracy like we Americans do today. They had a king/ruler throughout their ancient history. But, in the beginning of their era, there was no powerful king or ruler and a lot of the governing was based on the people until they got a king. (Elser and Ellis, 1998)

This is a picture of what the king/ruler would've looked like. (Facebook.com. Unknown author and year)

**//__Art/Architecture:__//** Minoans had beautiful art and architecture in their palaces and around them. In the palaces would be colorful wall paintings of dolphins leaping through the waters of the Aegean Sea as well as many other paintings. Many rooms in the palaces would lead on to breezy balconies and there would be openings in the roof to let sunlight and fresh air in. Other architectural structures included villas, temples, statues, and even burial tombs.(Elser and Ellis, 1998. ancient-greece.org, 2003-2011)

This a display of what a Minoan palace may have looked like.(Kevrekidis. 2009) **//__Social Classes:__//** Success in the Minoan civilization was mostly based on trade conquest. The palace of Knossos was the ruler of the trading empire and housed many successful people because of it. Their place was one of the more known ones throughout the civilization and had more quality possessions and designs in it as well. The women also had many rights during this era unlike other civilizations. (Elser and Ellis, 1998) Women were treated with great respect in their civilization, alot more than women in other civilizations. All women would would where there shirts like this unless you were the mother goddess as pictured under religion. (Unkown author. 2007) **//__Job Specialization__//** Pottery making was a special job during the Minoans civilization.(Natural History Museum.com. Unknown author. 2011) Jobs in the Minoan civilization were mostly trading for ivory and metal to make things they needed. The people would also make a lot of pottery to trade for things they needed. Women would be the ones to make the pottery, some of the men if they were not traders, would be farmers. (Elser and Ellis, 1998)

**__Written Language__** This is the Minoans alphabet. As time went on, this alphabet grew and needed specially trained people to read it. (Mariottini. 2008) The Minoan’s written language was difficult to establish, most believed it was a language of the Ancient Crete. The unusual language was written in Linear A, which is a syllabary used extensively up to 1420 B.C. The early writings were made of pietograms or just simple drawings. In time, symbols were added and specially trained people could read most of the Minoan’s written language. (Elser and Ellis, 1998)

**__Public Works__**

The Minoan’s success was based on trade instead of conquest, unlike most other people in Ancient Greece. They built ships out of oak and cedar trees to sail to different places for trade. They would trade pottery and stone vases for ivory and metals. (Elser and Ellis, 1998) //**=**// Minoans would sail to different places to trade their pottery for anything they really needed, for example ivory. ( Pic 1. greekpotteryshop.com. Unkown author. 2010. Pic 2. Paul. 2009) __Work Cited__
 * Benton, Janetta Rebold and DiYanni, Robert. //Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities.// Volume 1. Prentice Hall. New Jersey, 1998
 * Elser and Ellis. World History Connection to Today. Prentice Hall. New Jersey. 1998
 * http://www.google.com/imgres?q=minoan+civilization&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Ksr&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1440&bih=685&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnsb&tbnid=k64Y-DWbuTgG9M:&imgrefurl=http://www.dilos.com/location/13370&docid=Nbvkx8iGcUNpuM&w=380&h=250&ei=G3N6Tvq5HeKqsALfiMSeAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=367&vpy=193&dur=2&hovh=182&hovw=277&tx=157&ty=119&page=1&tbnh=137&tbnw=182&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0//
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 * http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ivory&num=10&hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1680&bih=907&tbm=isch&tbnid=UJxBIb6y6mhEZM:&imgrefurl=http:www.awf.org/blog/huge-ivory-seizure-two-men-arrested/&docid=w61GAjoT9RxLoM&w=750&h=500&ei=lWl7TvPLLcqisQLAvcjMAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=200&vpy=358&dur=418&hovh=167&hovw=218&tx=146&ty=87&sqi=2&page=1&tbnh=167&tbnw=218&start=0&ndsp=29&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0
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 * http://www.ancient-greece.org/history/minoan.html