The Minoans and Mycenaeans: Civilizations of the Bronze Age Aegean

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The Minoans and the Mycenaeans were both powerful civilizations of the Bronze Age Aegean, and often they are through to follow one after the other. However, this comparison video will detail through some of the similarities and differences between the Minoans and Mycenaeans, and the transmission of culture, practices and art which occurred between the two groups.
The Palace of Knossos is the most famous of the Minoan palatial centres, with its iconic bull leaping fresco and labyrinthine architecture layout. The prominence of the bull at Knossos links it to the mythological story of Theseus, King Minos, Ariadne and the Minotaur. The palatial centres of Mycenaean Greece are smaller than those on Crete, and we know more about how the centres functioned due to the Linear B archives, with the greatest number being found on Pylos.
The Mycenaeans had fortifications so large around most of the centres which were called 'Cyclopean', with the most outstanding being at Mycenae and Tiryns. However, they are not found at the site of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. The grand centres of the Minoans did not have any type of fortifications, potentially due to different threats.
The Minoans and Mycenaeans shared facets of their cultures with each other, however due to the Minoans being present on Crete earlier than the Mycenaeans on mainland Greece, the Minoans had a greater influence on the Mycenaeans, rather than the other way around. They had a preference with trading with each other, and the Mycenaeans chose to be buried with a great number of Mycenaean crafts, and adopted many of their iconographic motifs.
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@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 3 года назад

Why do you think the Minoans and Mycenaeans had such different defences around their palatial sites? And why do you think Pylos didn't construct Cyclopean walls around its centre like other Mycenaean cites such as Mycenae and Tiryns? Let us know!

@mandolemite 3 года назад

Probably because the Mycenaeans were based on the land and did not have a natural barrier like the sea. So they needed fortifications against potential land based enemies. Whereas the Minoans were surrounded by sea, which formed a natural barrier. Added to which if they had a strong merchant navy, they very probably had a strong military navy. So they were a maritime power. A more modern similarity is with Britain a hundred plus years ago: the British army, although very professional, was very small compared to mainland European armies. However the royal navy was maybe the strongest in the world at the time. The theory being that any invading power would be stopped at sea before reaching land.

@chrismiddleton9088 3 года назад

@@dina3396 Archaeological evidence points to the main Santorini (Thera) eruption being around 1500 BCE (i.e. the height of Minoan civilization) whereas radio carbon dating suggests an earlier date range of 1645-1600 BCE. It was the associated Tsunami that wreaked havoc.

@taracampbell3862 2 года назад

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@alicecullenedits649 Год назад

TITANS!

@eustathiosstratis5348 6 месяцев назад

I like to think the Minoans were a matriarchal society and therefore not a polemic peoples. As to why they did not have defensive walls I would like to think they had an esteemed position amongst the various other peoples they traded with and were loved and respected. I bet they had female diplomats too. We look at everything through the eyes of a patriarchal mind set and we are missing a lot. I think the people of Pylos were a different bunch.

@oldowl4290 3 года назад

Excellent summation. I've been revisiting all of human history lately and have always been captivated by the Minoans. I visited Knossos 30 years ago, where you could essentially still walk in and around all the ruins much like was also the case with many Mayan sites back then. Knossos is simply incredible in its complexity and scale (as are many Greek sites) but it truly has a magic quality about it. Their inverted conical red and black columns are truly unique to that palace. It would have also been good to mention the volcano explosion of 1600bce on Thera (now Santorini) that is supposedly what may have wiped them out.

@ellen4956 8 месяцев назад

Evans had those columns made; they're concrete. Some of the wall paintings are also fake, and he had his hired father-son team of artists fake a lot of the artifacts. I thought everyone knew that by now.

@Karlushy 11 месяцев назад

I’m currently visiting Crete on holiday and this is the best summarising video I’ve found about the two civilisations and their interaction in history. I loved it! Thank you!

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 11 месяцев назад

We're so happy to hear that! Enjoy your holiday! 😊

@hooshangguilak4478 3 года назад

Rermarkable in depth information about a civilization of the past. Informative and educational and exremely well presented. Thank you for such undertaking.

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

@bombfog1 3 года назад

Thank you so much for slowing down your narration for this video!

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 3 года назад

I'm glad that the narration for this video is at a better speed! Thanks for watching!

@reistarstryder1769 3 года назад

I hypothesize that the Minoans most likely had an impressive navy. I would also wager a guess that the Atlantis of which Plato wrote about, if it truly existed of course, was likely a city on Thera situated on top of a small volcanic island surrounded by near sea level caldera crater rings that may have existed in the current day Santorini caldera. Also, the geothermal heat and possible spring would provide abundant energy that would likely promote advancements to a civilization, such as art and technology. The Minoans are, after all and as far as we know yet, the first civilization to use underground plumbing for clean water as well as sewage transport.

@AndyKaknes 2 года назад

Thanks for another fantastic video Kelly.

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@jasonmcenaney4257 Год назад

We loved the way you tied the two civilizations together. A baseline set of characteristics of each before the comparisons would be helpful.

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Год назад

Thank you! You can read our articles on each civilization here: worldhistory.org/Mycenaean_Civilization/ worldhistory.org/Minoan_Civilization/ worldhistory.org/article/1610/the-minoans--mycenaeans-comparison-of-two-bronze-a/

@Metguy123 4 месяца назад

Who is we

@APinchOfHistory 2 года назад

Brilliant video! Narration and amount of information is top notch. Also, an absolutely charming presenter!

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@ritaroberts1265 3 года назад

Thank you for this video which was very well narrated. I have just finished my final thesis for the Pottery of the Minoans and Mycenaeans inclusive of some Linear B translations.So this video was most interesting for me.

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 3 года назад

Our pleasure, we hope you enjoyed it! That sounds like a brilliant topic, I'm currently writing mine on burials, Minoan trade and identity at Pylos!

@ritaroberts1265 3 года назад

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Yes thank I did enjoy it. By the way, I did a thesis on Minoan and Mycenaean Trade and Trade Routes in the Mycenaean Empire It's on Academia if you would like to check it out. There are others with the same name as me Rita Roberts but you will know it's me because of the subject. Best wishes.

@jarradgray56 3 года назад

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia does the in depth studies of trade between the co-existing civilizations give us insight into social interaction and also possible emigration integration of traders in these times..?

@chrismiddleton9088 3 года назад

Thank you for a succinct presentation.

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 3 года назад

Our pleasure! Thanks for watching :)

@johnnapoleonaustero9974 3 года назад

Thank you for your long information ❤️

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 3 года назад

You are so welcome!

@oldservantrecordings Год назад

Really great presentation presentation! always so engaging!

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Год назад

Thank you so much, Sean! We love to hear that. 😊

@conservintern2528 Год назад

Very informative. Thank you!

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@sarahsmith4859 3 года назад

my whole uni lecture completed in a more understandable and shorter version that covers everything even the smaller details. my lecture was 1 hour long and my lecturer is an athesis who questions all acheological findings.... meaning anything about religion is disguarded and he says along of archelogist are dumb and small minded... thank you for teaching me something im paying 900 dollars to learn about at university

@caesarillion 2 года назад

Doi!

@artrickard4494 9 месяцев назад

Interesting. How do we fully understand a culture if we do not study the religion of the people. Simply teaching the religious practices of a people does not promote religion. I am as sure you can learn new facts without teaching those who taught before you are not only wrong but stupid.

@GrinMonister 5 месяцев назад

I'm sorry this is absolute bull. Atheism doesn't mean they don't believe in religion. Atheists are fully aware that religions exist and accept that they do--they just don't believe any of them are true. You're either making this up or you're inventing reasons on why your professor acts like he does. Also, atheism has no connection to not believing archeological findings. In fact, atheists are more likely to believe in archeological findings and scientific findings than those who are religious. This comment is like the "God is Not Dead" of comments.

@grayk02 3 года назад

The Spartans, like the Minoans, had no city walls..so naturally we would conclude that they must have been a peaceful people as well..right? Guess it’s lucky we know a bit more about them

@greekveteran2715 3 года назад

More fearless than peaceful. Who would mess with Spartans? Xerxis tried,really HARD...Who would dare, to mess with the Minoans and Talos? Who would dare to mess with the Minoan archers, who are described, as the best archers in the ancient world. Who would dare, to mess with the Cretan dagger and double axes? I don't knoq if I;m right but I know, that... Their civilazation, was way more advanced, than we though it would be. Until we found out, that they had better drainage systems, than in many cases, we have today! That's a mystery and to get things worse, they have found, way more advanced buildings in the later years diggings, which make the mystery even bigger!

@bc7138 2 года назад

Interestingly the Roman Republic had a taboo against bringing military equipment within the city. Even the wearing of a military cape, a paludamentum, was frowned upon. Perhaps the Minoans had a similar attitude towards the display of military imagery? Maybe there was a religious taboo about illustrating violent scenes within art? There's a fresco from Thera that does seem to show warriors carrying large spears/pikes, wearing boar tusk helmets and carrying tower shields, which sort of disproves this.

@jeremyday9056 2 года назад

Good point.

@wankawanka3053 2 года назад

Spartans did have mountains

@gw7120 2 года назад

I am subbing right now and gona binge some more videos

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 2 года назад

Thankyou so much! We hope you're enjoying our content!

@GuyCruls 3 года назад

Thucidides tells us that Crete was a thalassocracy, so maybe they felt no need for ramparts, expecting their navy to do the job...

@caesarillion 2 года назад

I think the Cretans laced everyting in life with drugs and the pychedelia of the land and all that came near fell under their spell, like it or not. This worked until the big wave shook things up and the Myceneans discovered beef jerky from the Auroch and that weight lifting was another high that changed everything. They built the big walls because they could burn testosterone doing it and showing off in their special way, land based to the continent and it's riches.....

@AllahuSnackbar270 2 года назад

@@caesarillion Awesome. :'D

@TinyEpics 3 года назад

Nice channel! New subscriber here 👋 I go into the Bronze Age Minoan world quite a lot in my own channel. A fascinating topic!

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 3 года назад

Thanks so much, and welcome!

@waynemahler2455 2 года назад

Excellent

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 2 года назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@sakondo789 4 месяца назад

One of the oldest and fascinating civilizations

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 4 месяца назад

We agree! Thanks for watching!

@amberhood9968 2 года назад

One suggestion we have read about is that the Minoans had such an elite Navy that they did not feel the need to fortify the island. They felt confident they could defeat their enemies at sea before they landed.

@oltyret 3 года назад

If these are Greeks we're talking about, it could be that the non-wall builders considered themselves so bad ass, they didn't need walls. At least, that is how the Spartans felt about it in the classical period. The excessive fortifications in the north may be a reaction to a perceived threat from the north possibly due to a memory of themselves coming down from the north and conquering the native population. They didn't want to suffer the same fate. I would say that it was a combination of a feeling of security - not being north and exposed to invaders - and a feeling of confidence in their own martial prowess that caused the Minoans and the Mycenaeans located in the Southern Peloponnese to forgo building walls.

@warboats 2 месяца назад

nice one

@prodesign6634 3 года назад

hello everyone my name is Anton and an interior designer who is interested in art history. then the question is, why the Minoans had no defensive walls ? yes, maybe they had a large shipborne fleet, but why I do not see information regarding the found a large number of ships dated 1500 BC the time of the disaster that destroyed their fleet ? my point of looking at the art of the Minoans, I think that they were not afraid of anything at all they were definitely not afraid of death because they believed in their gods ! they were afraid not of people but of gods, and walls do not protect them from gods ! and in general the island of Сrete has only a few ways where a ship can land, its geography is not very simple...

@jansundvall2082 3 года назад

The Minoan have some similarities with the Neolithic Danube culture, i.e. no fortifications, few or no founds of martial arms and the snake goddess. Could it be so that this was a rest of a pre-Indoeuropean culture in Aegean, Western Anatolia and East Balkan?

@Luke-eg1gn 3 года назад

Yes, this is correct. This Pre-Indo-European peoples group is often called Old European. Their genetic makeup is primarily EEF/EAF - Early European/Anatolian Farmer - (Neolithic Farmer basically). The Etruscans are also among them and the Old Europeans are distantly related to the Early Old Egyptians, Ancient Mesopotamians, and Indus Valley peoples. At least more related than to the Indo-Europeans.

@bettydoughtery3920 3 года назад

Thank you

@billingersoll1266 3 года назад

I give it a ‘like’.

@Tekmirion 3 года назад

Nice one too pretty Kelly !

@stormsoldier2445 3 года назад

nice

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 3 года назад

Thanks!

@urielstud 3 года назад

It looks like in 1500 BCE when Santorini exploded and sent 100 ft. Tsunamis in the direction of nearby Crete to the south, the entire fleet of the Minoans was smashed, and some boat remains were found high on the slopes of Mt. Ida on Crete. This appears to have left the Minoans defenseless, and Mycenae invaded. Knossos never had high walls, and their defense was only maintained via their navy. Here’s a video I saw about that today: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-39Rk3UQUNAY.html

@nathanbrion2625 Год назад

This help for my exam :D! ty

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Год назад

We're so glad to hear that, Nathan! 🙂

@brucesutton3344 4 месяца назад

You're on an island, if you have a big effective navy, you don't need to worry about building fortifications.

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 4 месяца назад

Thanks for watching!

@massimosquecco203 3 года назад

I've got a question: What do you mean saying:- to bring the participants closer to the realm of the Gods -? Are you implying the human sacrifices, confirmed by the archaeological research?

@caesarillion 2 года назад

Meditation and belief linked with symbology kept them juiced on the lovely empowering aspects of their divinities and their festivals linked to nature.

@TheRealTomahawk Год назад

It’s a well known fact that Crete was a hegemony and relied on it as a deterrence against warfare. There’s was peace through their Navy’s strength

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Год назад

👍🏼 Thanks for watching!

@powerofthought2294 2 года назад

I'd love to visit Thera and Krete.

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@user-ox5db9pz1l 4 месяца назад

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@bc7138 2 года назад

Perhaps the difference between the lack of fortifications for the Minoans and Mycenaeans stems from social organisation. Maybe the Minoans had a somewhat centralised state, with a ruling dynasty ( possibly based at Knossos) governing the isle. With absolute power maintained by royalty and a religious class, perhaps a powerful clique of priestesses, no outside force could challenge them (except when they were later conquered by Mycenaeans). In that respect they could've been like New Kingdom Egypt with its god-king Pharaoh and priestly class. Minoan Wealth from trade with foreign powers like Egypt, as well as local agricultural produce would've been collected and housed within the palaces as part of the Palace economy. With all the wealth collected in these palaces, the rulers could control and distribute resources to the common people as they wished, therefore leading to a form of social control. Any who challenged the palace bureaucracy would be cut off from food supplies and resources. Further control could be maintained by the priestesses who performed sacred rituals meant to pacify the people. The Mycenaeans on the other hand could've been divided between several tribes/polities/dynasties, centered at different settlements like Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos etc. They vied with each other for control of land and resources which is why they had to build cyclopean walls and citadels for defending their holdings.

@Mallows_28 3 года назад

Are the minoans and mycenaeans the aegean people? I'm a bit confused

@MMadesen 3 года назад

Yes, they are. Early greeks.

@bobfisher9258 9 месяцев назад

The Minoans did not have fortifications because they had a global (N America to India) trading empire based on trading copper and tin and hence controlling the raw materials for the primary armaments of the period. Being the dominant mariners, they likely had a navy just in case and thus little need of fortification on their twin island centers of Crete and Thera. After Thera exploded in circa 1650BC and Northern Crete decimated by the subsequent tsunamis, Mycenae became the new cultural and administrative center of the survivors of the Minoan civilization, which had been developing without interruption for some 800 years.

@shibolinemress8913 11 месяцев назад

I suppose what we need to find is a Rosetta Stone for Linear A.

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia 11 месяцев назад

That would be awesome. Thanks for watching!

@patrickespinoza 2 года назад

Could the Minoans be descendents from Old Kingdom Egyptians and so had more open cities, while mainland mycenaens probably were threatened more often by surrounding tribes

@jamessmythe1891 2 года назад

All ancients civilisations have their roots in Sumer, present day Iraq - Persians, Scythian, Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans.

@patrickespinoza 2 года назад

@@jamessmythe1891 Yes, I'm pretty sure some Sumerians must have moved west after the 2nd millennium

@2coryman 3 года назад

It was the Minoans who were considered by the miceneans as the beautiful and most powerful and culturally influential people, there where friends to each other , when the volcanic disasters hsooened that destroy the Minoans the miceneans, ocupied the Minoan territories to rule and bring order to it , though the miceneans bad adopted the Minoans culture they kept their own language and gradually decayed be susetbey had a diferent cultural structure that didn’t promote comer and art and sophistication

@caesarillion 2 года назад

I think the Myceneans had a big problem with rodents and vermine that was not so on Crete and persistent batting and battling the pests with brooms eventually made them obsessed with building walls and barriers to unwelcome visitors.

@ledauphindebourbon6956 Год назад

The usage of caves in antique religion is clear. Caves seemed like openings to the underworld and presented a way to link with the chtonic gods.

@crustymcgee6580 3 года назад

Were the Minoans Indo-European? If they were. did they arrive ftom Asia Minor, the Levant or the Balkans?

@santiagolopeztuero5987 3 года назад

The Minoans arrived from Asia Minor while still in the neolithic age. As for the language, it is unclassified as there is no way to be certain.

@crustymcgee6580 3 года назад

Thanks!

@Arthur-pc1eh 3 года назад

They're unlikely to be Indo-European because their genetic make-up substantially lack Eurasian Steppe Dweller haplogroups that we find on mainland Greece and Hittite Anatolia. They most certainly arrived as Neolithic Anatolian agriculturalists probably related to Çatalhöyuk, although they also share genetic affinity to Old Europeans (like Etruscans or Sardinians, and part of Greek mainlanders).

@crustymcgee6580 3 года назад

Are you familiar with the theory that they were decsended from West Ugric-speaking migrants? www.academia.edu/38843730/Establishing_the_West_Ugric_Language_Family_with_Minoan_Hattic_and_Hungarian_by_a_Decipherment_of_Linear_A

@charadradam9985 3 года назад

@@santiagolopeztuero5987 there is no evidence that minoans came from the asia minor as a total population.. we should not forget that all the aegean populations of the old Aegeida of the paleolithic period gradually remained in the islands when the see level became lower or they just remained and gather in the greek peninsula and also in the minor asia coasts. there is some evidence that some people reached to Crete during the minoan period and that is something that has been found in some skeletons but in not to all and not to the people. besides south asia minor was not far away from Crete. but there is no evidence that brought different elements of civilization, as the artifacts of the minor asia and middle east populations were totally different from the artifacts of the minoans and the myceaneas. also the wall paintings too are unique. so when we cannot talk about total immigration of asia minor populations to Crete but of course for some human communication as it is rational in every age. in the end, we do not know officialy the language of the minoans but Liner A seems to have many common elements with the Linear B, although yet is not deciphered. but we know officialy that Linear A is also totally different from egyptian or from other easterns like summerians or hittites. so yes, Linear A is not deciphered yet but the clues seem to show that is closest to Linear B. besides the last elements that are known after the comparison of myceanean and minoan skeletons of the periods show that the skeletons are common between them and much different from the skeletons of the middle east. so there are a lot of strong reasons that give us the right to talk about aegean populations of the bronze age and its a common rational thought.

@sadikrady6066 3 года назад

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@williametheridge1764 Год назад

not bad!

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Год назад

Thanks for watching, William! 🙂

@williametheridge1764 Год назад

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia I am waist deep in big look at WHY democ'y in Class Greece and ironically a big factor seems to be "fall" of Bronze Age civ'ns. Esp Mycenae!

@Dandersenification 2 года назад

10:52 "Zeus, Poseidon...." -- No!? First statue is Poseidon and next one being highlighted is Zeus.

@ryderelkin5392 3 года назад

sup mr. anikouchines class

@oksanaorlenko6978 2 года назад

thank you. that was curious. with regards to no walls/fortifications with Minoans - could it be, that considering they worshipped chthonic deities - they actually followed some reptile strategy of hiding underground in times of calamities. more so, if their sites have complex underground network of 'utilized' (in yet unknown fashion) caves and catacombs... hmmm. stalactites would always mean salt and water supply, right? - just guessing -)

@caesarillion 2 года назад

Yes, the primitive act of making holes to plant seeds led these lucky ones living on this singularly idylic and fertile isle, graced with beneficent winds and airs and flowers in abundance, to associate life with holes and caves and to worship same for life and safety.

@aidenbolte8354 Год назад

@@caesarillion you don’t think early humans were able to observe animals burrow and think “oh yeah that’s smart as shit we should hide underground”

@mikedavis8499 2 года назад

OK. But why so much shots of the lady talking?????

@mangasoul6654 3 года назад

She’s really good on talking I envy you!😘

@chillininthesunshine5447 3 года назад

*Theory on why the Minoans weren’t militant* Today, we observe a dynamic in which South Koreans are not militant, because they are covered by Americas sphere of influence. The Minoans were in the sphere of influence of the ancient Egyptian super powers. Anyone attacking them, would arouse the rath of Egypt and Kush and the rest of Aethiopia; super powers of the time that predated both Minoans and Mycenaeans by at least 1300-1500 years(Thinis, Qustul, Kerma 3100 B.C+). We can observe the Egyptian frescos of the Minoan tributes. Look at the Minoan fresco so called, ‘captain of the blacks’ the Minoans were a vassal of Egyptians and Aethiopians. The Mycenaeans were also under this sphere of influence, hence all the Aethiopian characters in their legends such as King Memnon and his seemingly unlimited Army of Aethiopians, as well as princess Adromeda, who is seldom depicted as she was described; Aethiopian. Mycenaeans had to be militant, because they were on the mainland with much larger threats, and politics to contend with.

@morriganmhor5078 2 года назад

Partly possible, but up to Ptolmees Egypt didn´t have the sea navy worth that name. All their war in Near East coast were fought on land by land armies, possibly with some transportation vessels by the coast. Egypt also, as far as I know, didn´t conquer Cyprus that is much nearer to the Delta of Nile than Crete (that was job for Hittites and Assyrians, possibly being transferred by Urartu and Phoenician vessels respectively).

@morriganmhor5078 2 года назад

Correction: Not Urartu but Ugarit

@caesarillion 2 года назад

A brilliant observation, this. Thank you.

@mattcoates6988 Год назад

Why did the Mycenians have a big wall and why did the Minoans not???? so basically the mycenians fought amongst themselves and so they had need to protect themself the minoans lived on an island and had natural protection from the sea and were perhaps a grand naval force keep it up world history encyclopedia - faith and lana yr 11 ancient history xx

@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Год назад

Thank you! 🙂

@kapenguintv 2 года назад

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@AetherflyerGames 28 дней назад

The Minoan's fortifications were their navy.

@praisingsunshine2078 7 месяцев назад

Look into archaix for the true history

@massimosquecco203 3 года назад

How could you forget to mention Tel Kabri, the archaeological site that testifies the cultural presence of Minos in the Levant? No Bueno!

@kimberlyperrotis8962 2 года назад

You’re mixing up scripts and languages, they’re not the same thing.

@michalischeilos1511 3 года назад

Mycenaeans copyed everything from cretans,also minoan period starts 7000-1100 bc myceneans 1700 -1200 bc

@PeterRevesz 3 года назад

Actually, the Linear A script was deciphered recently as can be seen in the following video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PiLyN9T2stY.html

@ddpp1420 2 года назад

Why did you leave out the island of Atlantis

@OneGamerJesse 2 года назад

TRENT YOUR WRONG

@ThursonJames 2 года назад

Rename the channel: “Intro to World History”

@ardirama4432 3 года назад

hmmm somone explain why homer said aincient greeks came from pelasgians and modern greeks come from mycenenas

@sauron8838 3 года назад

Pelasgians was a term that ancient Greeks used to describe their precursors, but nowadays we typically call them Mycenaeans after the famed Bronze Age site of Mycenae

@ardirama4432 3 года назад

@@sauron8838 ok bud thats just not true

@ardirama4432 3 года назад

@@sauron8838 pelasgians left illyrians thracians and greeks

@ardirama4432 3 года назад

@@sauron8838 not myceneans myceneans are just some nobody

@sauron8838 3 года назад

@@ardirama4432 Well, in Modern Archaeology, Mycenaeans are used to describe the Bronze Age Greeks. The Greeks themselves called their precursors Pelasgians or Minyans, as far as I know.

@ryderelkin5392 3 года назад

when she said homer i thought she meant homer simpson

@Atilla963 2 года назад

Minoan disk is Tataric Turkic. Mycenaens also. They have our Turkic fish letter M. For their names. Greeks don't have this letter ever in their history. There is no Greek history. There is a Turkic history what they tell you as Greek history and civilization. More than 90% is fairytale. The cradle of civilization starts with Turks. Sumerians are Turks. Egyptian Hieroglyphes are written in Sumerian Turkic. Etruscans with the letter alfabet are Turks. Troyans are Turks. Scythians are Saka Turks. Called Scythian by Greeks and Irani, but the Arabs called these horse riding people as Oğuz, Öküz/Okuz/Oks/Ox. The people of Mu, the Sun people. Civilization is brought by Turks, that's why many folks have old Turkic words, in a new form. It all derived from Turkic words, languages and writings.

@Atilla963 Год назад

@@olorin4317 The Maya's also told about them, you westerns call them 'The Sea People, Who Were They'?, or their alphabet, Lineair A/B. The Phaistos Disk is already translated to Turkic. And the Maya's and Mexicans named these children of the Gods, the Sun people. They came and go with ships. These are the Turkics, they left hundreds or thousands Turkic words there. It is not Greek, It is not Roman, surely not European. Just Turkic. Guess what, the Greeks, Europeans and Egyptians told also about these people who came with ships there. So what do you mean by, Nationalistic Narcism? The white westerns and Greeks who name them as Greeks? Hahahahhaha, what a jokers. What a stupidity. We Turkics brought you all civilization. Read, Gene D. Matlock - What Strange Mystery Unites the Turkish Nations, India, Catholicism, and Mexico?

@Atilla963 Год назад

@@olorin4317 So what about your yikes nationalism nascissm. Telling the world a Greek civilization, while it is the Turkics. Embaressing. Did you ever saw Greek civilization from 0 to 2023? Do you guess it was there before this year 0? Their oldest writing is 1400B.C. and our Turkic ones are older than 5000B.C. You all are so funny. Especially liars.

@Atilla963 Год назад

@@olorin4317 The Sumerian are also Turkic, did you know that? The cradle of civilization. The ones that brought you all writing, math, and all other things. Learned you all many things. And you all didn't even had a writing, you can't find your writings. And the oldest ones for the westerns are those from the Greeks 1400B.C. And Sumerian Turks, 5000B.C. and older. So it is all Greek you westerns say? Nationalistic Narcissm? Why are you all lying?