On Feb 17, 9:51=A0am, Ralph Hertle <ralph.her...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> grapheus:
>
> grapheus wrote:
>
> [...]> Everything is "Minoan" !.. Any location where a few Minoan
potterie=
s
> > 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", =A0became 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
Mediterranea=
n.
>
> 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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