The Minoan Civilization: The Collapse Of The Minoans Civilizations

With the Minoans civilization there is still great debate on how this civilization collapsed to was it due to the cause of the rise of the Mycenaeans or by the Thera Eruption or even to an extent neither caused the Minoans civilization to collapse as it remains a mystery to this day. As to many historians and archaeologists, they try to make a statement it was one of these events that lead to their collapse while others doubt these events were not the cause of their collapse as it was other things. Some background information on the Minoans civilization is that Sir Arthur Evans gave the Minoan name “named after King Minos, a legendary king of Crete in Greek mythology” back in the 1900s” (Wallenfels and Sasson 1). Sir Arthur Evans got interested in the Minoans and how we

According to most historians and archeologists, the Minoans civilization was during the time of 1700 to 1425 BC. As some say the Minoans civilization dates back such as Mark Carthwright says “the Minoan civilization flourished in the middle Bronze Age on the Mediterranean island of Crete from ca. 2000 BCE until ca. 1500 BCE” and others say like the editors of encyclopedia Britannica say Minoan civilization [the] Bronze Age civilization of Crete that flourished from about 3000 BC to about 1100 BC. Of the editors of encyclopedia Britannica saying that Minoans civilization goes along with Sir Arthur Evans somewhat as “he uncovered the ruins of a unique and distinctive culture dating from about 3000 to 1000 B.C. [to] called this culture the Minoan civilization” (Wallenfels and Sasson 1).

The Minoans civilizations’ view on the life differed to other civilizations during this time in the Mediterranean world. To begin, the people of the Minoans civilization were of non-violent people as Mathisen states it his book “Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations” is that “the Minoans seem to have a nonviolent