Why don't Minoans get the respect they deserve? They developed

>>2479390
They're just an offshot of wider Phoenecian-Mesopotamian civilisation

>>2479390

Because their writing is undeciphered, unlike Egypt and Mesopotamia, so there is far less known.

>>2479414

> They're just an offshot of wider Phoenecian-Mesopotamian civilisation

No, that is a retarded statement.

because the greeks took everything they had and ran with it to much greater lengths

>glorified clown civilization
>deserves respect
Come come

Any people who develop as much as the Minoans should be respected, not only if they did it earliest in absolute terms.

>>2479451

It isn't.
They're part of the same cultural sphere.
Germany, France and England are very much distinct entities, but all are part of Western civilization.

>dude bulls lmao
>whoa labyrinths
>breasts are beautiful! no shame!
>linear script
>islands!
>watch imma jump this bull
>frescoes

fucking retarded civilization

I still remember when I first learned that they used to dip their toes in cat milk before sex rituals. Really fucking weird culture

>minoans
>civilized
>One day while sacrificing to Poseidon, Minos, King of Crete and son of Zeus and Europa with Zeus having taken the form of a bull, prayed that a bull would appear from the depths of the sea to prove to his brothers that he was the rightful King. Minos vowed to heaven that he would sacrifice the bull to Poseidon once it appeared.

>Poseidon, then, produced a magnificent bull from the sea and gave it to Minos with the expectation that Minos would sacrifice it to him. This bull indeed certified that Minos was the rightful king of Crete. Rather than sacrifice the bull to Poseidon, Minos kept it for himself. Angered with Minos, Poseidon plotted to punish him for his arrogance. So, he made Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, fall madly in love with the bull.

>Pasiphae was the daughter of Helios, the Sun, by the eldest of the Oceanids Perse.

>Pasiphae had married Minos, the King of Crete. She bore several children to the king, including Androgeos, Ariadne, Deucalion, and Phaedra.

>As she fell in love with the white bull, the Queen conscripted the great artisan Daedalus to assist her in the endeavour, and he built for her a hollow wooden cow, wrapped in a bovine skin and endowed with mechanical life.

>Hiding herself inside this contraption, the Queen of Crete satisfied her lust for bull. She become impregnated by the bull and she then conceived and bore a hybrid child, the bull-headed Minotaur.

>>2479390
>3650 BC

More like 2000 BC and That's streching it, They did Not ha cities, writing or noteworthy monuments/art before that, to be fair They were shit until 1750 BC

>>2479390
They're too close to Europe for (((academics))) to want to advertise them.

>>2479974
The opposite, they're Hittite / other minor near east civlisation tier in term of importance which is not that important at all, the only reason they're studied extensively is because they're considered predecessor to greeks which are predecessor to western civilisation

>>2479451
there writing is deciphered