“...Still, the reality is that the federal government made treaties and broke them, committed ethnic cleansing and genocide. If you want to go around the world you’ll find conduct as bad or worse just about everywhere you look but they did do it.
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As did everybody else including those “not-so-vicious” tribes. You just have a fuzzy snapshot of their history recorded by poorly informed observers with little to no written native sources. Easy to hide successes and atrocities if there is no written language therefore no historians to hail the victories and\or damn the atrocities. Minoan civilization for a long time was hailed as peaceful purely commercial, now they’re finding weapon caches from the period and a local weapons industry.
Note: I always wondered how modern historians could draw the “peaceful Minoans” conclusion. The “Theseus and the Minotaur” legend clearly states Athens was a tributary to Knossos, so much so they had to send their youth to Crete for human sacrifice! You don’t have to accept the story “in toto” to conclude that somehow Knossos had real physical control and power on mainland Greece, if not Athens then somewhere.