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Essay for Midterm
Because Linear A and the Minoan hieroglyphs have not yet been translated, we know very little conclusively about the Minoan Culture. All that we know about these people must be drawn from archaeological evidence. Their cities were centered around a central palace that would contain a central court, what would appear to be administrative offices, apartments, several smaller rooms, intricate systems of hallways and passages to connect them, and a sort of storage area. In the area surrounding the palaces there were smaller farmhouses and fields. It seems that the inhabitants of these houses would work the fields and bring their harvest to the storage area where it would be distributed evenly among the people. The palaces were heavily decorated with what Evans called the “horns of consecration”, stylized bulls’ horns that along with several “bull-leaping” images signify the Minoans fascination with the bull. They seem to have allowed previously......

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