Map of Crete and surroundings from website: ed-ification.net
Here's an easy to read and follow site with plenty of illustrations of Minoan life: Minoan Civilization and here's a map of Crete itself in Minoan times: Close-up map of Crete
It's amusing to imagine America as a lost civilization like Minoan Crete. Future archaeologists may think we worshipped at our "altars" (TVs or computers) in our homes or neighborhood restaurants and bars. Maybe they'll think our airplanes were giant stylized sculptures of birds! That would be the material remains, what about the tales told of us by current enemies or friends. Or like the Minoans, they were discussed by people who wrote about them centuries later! Subject of myth...
Quizlet about Minoa and the password is seaMincretelec14
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