grapheus:
grapheus wrote:
[...]
> Everything is "Minoan" !.. Any location where a few Minoan potteries
> have been found is considered as a "Minoan colony",
> even when the said potteries have been brought there
> from Crete by another people, the Proto-Ionians for instance !..
>
[...]
Are you saying that the Ionian coast of Asia Minor is the location of
the Proto-Ionians and the Minoans?
Isn't it a fact that the Minoans of Crete originated from Asia Minor,
and that their religion is a descendant of the religions of the peoples
of Asia Minor?
The Minoan-Cretan empire was made of a combination of five sub empires.
These were: the areas of the Island of Crete and the islands of the
Aegean including the probable titular center at Thera, the Ionian coast
of Asia Minor, Troy, the Peloponnese and Athens, and the coastal areas
that we know as Lebanon/ Israel/ and Palestine. The peoples of the
Peloponnese became the Mycenaean and the Spartans. Of Athens and other
mainland cities, Greeks. The peoples of Lebanon/ Israel/ and Palestine
became the Philistines and the Phoenicians. All of them, who were known
as "the Sea Peoples", became part of the Greek/ Hellenic world.
Trading colonies or establishments apparently existed in Spain, Scythia
and Alexandria, and stop-over trading towns and seaports that may have
been run by the local peoples in many instances, e.g., the Egyptians of
~2000 to ~1250 BCE, probably existed at many locations on the
Mediterranean.
There were quite a number of people in these geopolitical areas, and I
hope to find some estimates of the populations of the Minoan Empire,
their cities and rural areas. It simply isn't a matter of your
downplaying the success of that society based upon the 'potteries' that
you falsely claim to have been provided by other peoples of the Minoan
Empire.
Are you practicing denial in contrast, when in fact others including
scientists have well defined factual knowledge of the Minoan Empire and
its peoples?
Ralph Hertle
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