Posted on 09/16/2019 4:21:23 PM PDT by Openurmind
The Minoans and their capital Knossos weren’t incinerated by volcanic blast from Thera or flattened by quake as thought, but tellingly: their writing system changed.
The mystery of what happened to the Minoan civilization has tormented archaeologists for over a century, and the tale has now taken a new twist. Nothing happened to them, say archaeologists who have been excavating the island of Crete for over thirty years. This extraordinary people, who produced palatial architecture unparalleled in the Aegean region at the time, were not immolated by the volcanic eruption of Thera as once thought, crushed by earthquake, or squashed by Mycenaean Greece as more recently supposed. Rather, the Minoans, who had for centuries wielded influence throughout the Aegean, did experience earthquakes that rattled them, were indeed badly weakened by the volcanic blast from Thera on the nearby island of Santorini, and did experience the unamiable attentions of the mainland Greeks.
But although the two cultures appear to have struggled, over time the elite elements of both became virtually indistinguishable, after 1450 B.C.E., if not earlier. Minoan influence as such would recede and the by-then-Mycenaeanised islanders would soldier on until the great collapse of civilization around the Mediterranean Basin, around 1,200 B.C.E.
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Why?
My pleasure.
Bump
Any civilization that doesn’t change its default type font from Times New Roman to a more readable sans-serif font is doomed.
Liberalism?
It is an obvious slap at Christians.
One possibility. It could be that Minoan civilization’s upper classes taxed their productive people so much, that when Greek cities arose, the skilled Minoan craftsmen left for other places with less of a tax burden
No, it's not, it's an obvious use of a dating system common to non-Christians, such as the Israeli source of the story. So knock it off.
It's an Israeli publication. The writers and primary readership are Jewish. Why would you expect them to use Christian nomenclature?
It’s a Jewish website. That is how BC is always expressed
Yes it is and you are right. It is used by people who are not Christians but don’t want to create their own system. They use the Christian system but want to dis them at the same time.
And yes it is intended to be.
Sort of like a person who doesn’t like Greeks but uses their alphabet and refers to it as the common letters.
Because they use a Christian system. If they don’t want to use a system created by Christians then create their own system.
Don’t use it then make a point of dissing them by calling it something else.
Jews say before Christ by changing it to a meaningless phrase?
I would bet money that Disraeli never said BCE.
You should have mentioned what an ignorant bigot you are, I wouldn't have bothered with a reply. I'd be surprised if you don't put the very same wheel to work in the very same rut in many a science and history topic here on FR, because that's what trolls do.
Every culture has a dating system. Most of them are older than the Gregorian system which only goes back to the 16th Century. The world standardized on the Gregorian system for ease of communication. That's a compliment to us, not a slap in the face.
That’s a safe bet considering Disraeli was an Anglcan, although CE was in scholarly use by then, first as ‘Common Era of Christ’.
On topic, Mycenaeans, how, gradual and maybe instances of opportunities to exploit.
They should do a movie called National Lampoon’s Vacation Time where the Griswolds time-travel and accidentally wreak havoc everwhen they go.
A Jewish person using AD may believe they are breaking the First Commandment
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