Vol 2 Ep 23 - The Minoan civilisation

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 30 June 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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2000 - 1450 BCE - Our first European civilisation takes us to the island of Crete in the Mediterranean where we learn of bare breasted ladies, bull-leaping, huge palaces and the ferocious Minotaur in the labrynth. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message

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0:00.0	This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler
0:06.0	and this is volume 2 the ancient world
0:11.0	episode 23 the Minoan Civilization. Oh, oh, oh, The location for this week's podcast is the island of Crete. Crete is a large island that marks the southern point of the Aegean Sea,
0:49.0	the sea that separates the Greek mainland from the Anatolian mainland.
0:55.2	Once you head south of Crete, you are in the open waters of the Mediterranean Sea
1:01.3	looking towards the North African coast.
1:04.8	Cyprus and the Levant is to your east.
1:09.1	Egypt to the southeast and the Italian lands and what would in the future become Carthage to the west.
1:18.1	It is right in the middle of the Eastern Mediterranean.
1:23.4	So when did humans first arrive on Crete?
1:27.0	Well, to get there, you need a boat.
1:30.2	If you can get to Crete on a boat, then you can get to Cyprus on a boat.
1:35.4	Now we have talked a lot about Cyprus during this podcast series.
1:39.4	Particularly, we have done so a lot during the ancient volume but we also spoke about it in the
1:46.5	prehistoric volume. We do know that Cyprus was occupied during the Neolithic with
1:52.4	signs of agriculture so it would be reasonable to suggest that
1:56.3	the island of Crete was accessible for the same reason.
2:00.4	So it would be fair to assume that there was activity on the island of Crete during the Neolithic
2:05.3	as we evidently would have had the facility to travel overseas with resources such as
2:10.9	livestock even 10,000 years ago.
2:15.0	Professor Thomas F Strasser of Providence College in Rhode Island led a team of
2:22.4	archaeologists to two sites in the south of the Island of Crete in 2008 and 2009.
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