Category:Minoan civilization

Articles relating to the Minoan civilization, a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from c. 3500BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000BC, and then declining from c. 1450BC until it ended around 1100BC, during the early Greek Dark Ages, part of a wider Late Bronze Age collapse around the Mediterranean. It represents the first advanced civilization in Europe, leaving behind a number of massive building complexes, sophisticated art, and writing systems. Its economy benefited from a network of trade around much of the Mediterranean.