Since neither of these two civilisations get their fair discussion,

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>>1135461
i dig Minoan modernism

BASED

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>>1135461
Mycenean walls of Tyrins

>>1135461
I wonder what cause the dark age collapse. A violent sudden decline of all civilization.

>>1135666
>bronze age collapse

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>>1135666
>Dark age collapse
>People lose the knowledge on how to build mudhuts

>>1135666
Some major cataclismic event, such as series of volcanic eruptions, that led to crop failure, that led to mass migrations of entire populations, that led to war, that led to whole civilizations collapsing.

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>>1135619
Ciclopean walls in Mycenae

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>>1135666
>dark age collapse
>the technology of digging holes to shit in was lost until mid 15th century

>>1135461
What do you guys think caused the collapse of the Minoans?
I personally think it was the volcanic eruption, though I have read that an invading force may have also been responsible.

>>1135461
They were essentially Egyptian knock off civilizations. True or False /his/?

>>1135800
Isn't everything essentially a Sumer knock off Civilization?

>>1135790
>What do you guys think caused the collapse of the Minoans?

It's pretty much accepted by all academicians that the Myceneans attacked them and conquered the island

>They were essentially Egyptian knock off civilizations. True or False /his/?

Absolutely false, the Myceneans were basically tribal, there wasn't a central state, each citadel had its own ruler (Wanax).

Artistically wise the Myceneans didn't even make statues unlike the Egyptians, the Mycenean tholoi tombs have nothing to do with Egypt either.

>>1135461
For one thing, we are not entirely sure about the authenticity of the death mask from Mycenae in OP, the so-called mask of Agammenmon.

The 19thC excavator, Heirich Schliemann, was a man with a fraudulent reputation, and a savage excavator. Indeed it is possible that the mask is genuine, but reshaped by Schliemann to fit his imagination. Regardless, he brutalised the site of Troy.

>>1135873
>It's pretty much accepted by all academicians that the Myceneans attacked them and conquered the island
I wonder how they pulled this off. Didn't the minoans have a powerful navy for the time?

>>1135938
I guess, they did have some advanced sailing techniques but they weren't military like, their settlements weren't even walled nor did they built any fortifications as far as I know.

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>>1135461
I'll be following with interest. Personally, any Mycenean art to fill out a folder would be welcome, as well as maps.

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Mandatory Minoan boobies incoming.

Red-pill me on these Minoan cultural features:

Double axe
Snake handling
Bull jumping
Absence of gods in their art
Is it true Crete was matriarchical and ruled by women and their beta orbiters?

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>>1136604
>Absence of gods in their art

They weren't prominent but we have depictions of the snake Goddes in statuettes, although the paintings didn't depict Gods but nature, in a few cases mythical creatures too like the gryphon.

>>1136664
Oh that's a goddess? I thought it was a priestess.

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>>1136531
This guy gets it

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>>1136604
the labrys is a meme, it actually functioned as a ritual calendar
pic related

>>1135666
I think there was a volcano that erupted in the Aegean somewhere

Effected the climate and lead to a decrease in crops

More hungry people went around to get food, fucking everything up

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Why Cretan men looked so gay? kek

>>1138303
Santorini

>>1138348
As a girl, I find them handsome looking though anon.

>>1138471
tits or gtfo

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>>1138478
As you wish sir.