'?' Why did the Cretan civilization suddenly disappear Is there really no written record of its history?

Cretan Civilization Introduction Middle and Late Bronze Age culture. Also known as the "Minoan civilization" (from the ancient Greek mythology in the Cretan king Minos's name). The island of Crete in the eastern Mediterranean was the birthplace of the ancient Aegean civilization, the earliest center of ancient civilization in Europe. Bronze culture appeared at the end of the 3rd millennium B.C., and at the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C., the earliest slaveholding state in Europe, centered on Knossos, emerged. Knossos is located in the northern part of Crete, where the earliest palaces were built in Neolithic settlements around 1900 BC. This period saw the development of political, economic and social organization, with frequent trade with the eastern Mediterranean coast and extensive contacts with Egypt, Phoenicia, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy. Then there were palaces in Faistos, Malia, Zakros and other places. The latter palace of Knossos was destroyed by an earthquake or war, but was rebuilt and made more majestic. It was a perfect complex of several buildings of more than two floors, with places dedicated to the holding of rituals. Around 1500 B.C., the palaces at Knossos and Phaistos were destroyed at the same time, thought by some to be due to a volcanic eruption near the island of Syra. Around 1450 BC the palace was vandalized, probably due to the invasion of the Greeks in the Balkans. From this time onwards, the Greeks became the masters of Crete and gradually integrated with the original inhabitants of the island, thus bringing an end to the Cretan civilization. The Aegean civilization first originated in Crete and then spread to mainland Greece and Asia Minor. Between 1700 and 1400 B.C., Cretan civilization reached its heyday, but soon declined abruptly, and the center of Aegean civilization shifted to Mycenae on the Greek peninsula. The Cretan civilization began very early; by 3000 BC, the Bronze Age had already begun there, with the appearance of hieroglyphic writing (which has not yet been deciphered) and buildings of considerable size; it was destroyed (or destroyed by earthquakes) around the seventeenth to sixteenth centuries BC. In the mid-2000s, Crete reached the height of the Bronze Age, with rather grand palaces in Nososos and Phaethos, a variety of fine artifacts, and the linear script "A" (not yet deciphered); suggesting that it was already a class society, and its inhabitants are thought to have come mostly from Western Asia. It was probably destroyed by a volcanic eruption about 1400 BC. "Between about 2250-1200 B.C., Crete was the center of a maritime empire that extended its influence politically and culturally to the islands of the Aegean Sea and the coasts of the mainland. ...... Its naturalistic fine arts deserve the highest praise. praise, and it enjoyed a civilization more 'modern' in many respects as far as its comforts were concerned than anywhere else in the ancient world." "The ruler of Knossos had the largest navy of his time, forced the Xigaladi Islands (southeast of the Greek Peninsula) to submit, and established the hegemony of the city of Knossos in the Aegean Sea. ...... From the seventeenth century B.C. onward, there had been a frequent exchange (between Crete) and mainland Greece. Cretan navigators were already present in Mycenae, Tyrone, the Isthmus of Corinth, Peotia, Attica, Thessalia, etc. ...... "In the second millennium B.C. Creta already had the following craftsmen: weaponsmiths, carpenters, blacksmiths, leatherworkers, potmakers, lapidaries, skeletonizers, ivory technicians , painters, sculptors, etc." With regard to the Cretan polity, historiography, on the basis of various lines of evidence, has postulated the Second Knossos period in 1600 BC. "The socio-political system resembles in many respects that of the ancient Eastern kingdoms. ...... Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain where the large buildings, the many kinds of handicrafts, the luxury goods, and the elegant playthings came from. ...... By analogy with the Oriental examples, slave labor may have been used along with native labor to build official temples, construct roads, quarry, do various crafts, and serve as seamen. "As in the case of the Egyptian pharaohs, the ruler of the palace of Knossos held the offices of both priest and military chief. There is a late Minoan colored relief that clearly proves this. This bas-relief depicts a man, about three meters high, wearing a crown adorned with a bundle of long colored feathers, under which long curls of hair are revealed, hanging loose between the shoulders, with rows of gold necklaces around his neck and chunky bracelets on his wrists." King Knossos was decorated similarly to Egyptian pharaohs, and some scholars have speculated that the Cretan civilization simply migrated from Egypt. "The so-called Minoan civilization, which began at the same time as the Bronze Age, flourished in the eastern and central part of Crete during this era ...... The Egyptian influence began in the First Dynasty era (3500 BC),... ...Later, in the Second Pre-Minoan period (2800-2400 BC), the Egyptian component became so strong that an Egyptian colony may even have been established in Crete, which, as far as we can tell, was below the Sixth Dynasty. Perhaps the upheavals (in Egypt) that took place at the beginning of the First Dynasty and at the time of the overthrow of the Fifth Dynasty drove away a considerable number of groups of people to Crete to find peace and take their chances. And Crete was originally inhabited by races related by blood. Or we may imagine that adventurous Cretan sailors, sailing southward,--or perhaps blown off their course by a storm,--discovered the wonders of the valley of the Nile. And thus, either by chance or by adventure, came the shocking force to embark on the path of civilization which Crete had never enjoyed up to this time." That the original inhabitants of Crete came from the Afro-Asian steppe is supported by ethnographic evidence: "An analysis of the remains of the earliest inhabitants of Crete in terms of their physical size proves that all, or the great majority, of the original inhabitants of this island were 'long-headed' people (the earliest inhabitants of the Afro-Asian steppe), and that the The ethnographic evidence that the 'broad-headed' people (the earliest inhabitants of Anatolia and Greece), though eventually dominant, were unrepresentative or only a minority among the original Cretan population. affirms the conclusion that the earliest people to inhabit any of the Aegean islands were immigrants who moved there because of the 'drying out' of the Afro-Asian steppe." The Mystery of Disappearance The Cretan civilization, which once flourished in the Mediterranean Sea more than 3,000 years ago, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. What caused this ancient civilization to evaporate? And when exactly did all this happen? This has been a mystery that has plagued the archaeological community for many years. Now, a piece of olive branch buried in the ground for thousands of years is expected to become the key to solve this mystery. Danish scientists published a paper in the April 28 issue of the U.S. "Science" magazine, said the destruction of the entire Cretan civilization may be the largest volcanic eruption in 10,000 years. Powerful Ancient Civilization Crete is the largest island in the Aegean Sea, and the Cretan civilization was the starting point of the ancient Greek civilization, which was especially famous for its opulent and complex palace architecture. However, such a powerful civilization eventually disappeared for no apparent reason. There are many speculations about this, some believe that it was destroyed by barbarians from Asia Minor, some believe that it was the result of a war with the Greek city-states, and others believe that it may have been hit by a massive earthquake. Walter Friedrich, a professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, has verified a more convincing theory, based on a section of olive branch recovered from the island of Syra, near Crete: the Cretan civilization was destroyed by a volcanic eruption of unprecedented proportions and the massive tsunami it caused. With an ethnically identical population and a culture strongly influenced by Egypt, the conclusion that Crete, a maritime empire, resembled an eastern kingdom seems logical. Volcanic Eruption Scientists say that about 3,600 years ago, a volcano on the island of Syrah suddenly erupted so violently that its column of smoke rose high into the sky, and the ash was even dispersed on the winds to Greenland, China, and North America. The eruption also triggered a massive tsunami, with waves up to 12 meters high sweeping over Crete, more than 100 kilometers from Syrah, destroying coastal ports and fishing villages. Moreover, the ash remained airborne for a long period of time, causing a "nuclear winter" effect similar to that which followed a nuclear war, resulting in successive crop failures in the years that followed. The Cretan civilization may have suffered a devastating blow and rapidly declined. Another important result of Friedrich's work is to determine more accurately the time of the disappearance of the Cretan civilization. Previously, some archaeologists indirectly deduced that the Cretan civilization died out around 1500 BC by comparing Cretan artifacts with those from the New Dynasty period in ancient Egypt. The discovery of the olive branches could help scientists determine more accurately the time of the eruption. This time has been identified as somewhere between 1627 BC and 1600 BC. Rewrite history Although only the Cretan civilization to the time of the demise of about 100 years forward, but its impact on the history of the world can not be underestimated, the origin of the history of Western civilization may be rewritten. Previously, scientists believed that the Cretan civilization had close commercial and cultural exchanges with the new dynasty of ancient Egypt and was influenced by the ancient Egyptian civilization. However, the newly established timeline disproves this view, as the New Dynasty of Ancient Egypt began in the 16th century BC, by which time the Cretan civilization had ceased to exist. Follow-up question: In the search suddenly found that there is the olive branch, how do you analyze this

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