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This essay is about the decline of the Minoan civilization (culture) towards the later part of the Mycenaean period.
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Like all great things that come to be, it soon must fall. Between 1200 and 1100 BC, the late Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations during the latter part of the Bronze Age were severely jolted, culturally and architecturally. Minimal concrete evidence points to a specific cause, but a cataclysmic natural disaster such as an earthquake is said to be the main culprit. More logically, an invasion from northern habitats, specifically the Greek-speaking Dorian's drove out the Mycenaean's and brought upon the destruction and abandonment of major Greek cities. Even with at least one deity believed to protect each city, the dramatic events that followed appear that even their fate in their own god or goddess could not prevent.
The Minoans of Crete during the Bronze Age, who still to this day, are known to have had the.....
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