Please bear with me as I try to combine different sets of Veritas cards in order to present History in a chronological order. I know there are different curriculum resources that put out timelines. I don't have one available to me, so I will look at the dates on the cards and try to work with the different sets (right now Old Testament and Ancient Egypt, and, New Testament and Greece and Rome). I was looking at the cards in the second set and realized that the time frame for those events, at least on the first card, were the same or earlier than Moses, so I want to combine the sets as far as their time frame is concerned. I will experiment with this and try to get the events as close to being correct as possible, and in order of their happenings.
So with that in mind, I will do the first card in the New Testament and Greece and Rome series now, which actually predates the time of Moses, which is where I was at in the other set of cards.
Minoan Culture - Around the time period of 2200 B.C. - 1450 B.C.
The area was the island of Crete. If you remember the event of the Tower of Babel, God confused the languages of the people and they were scattered to different areas of the world. The first European civilization began on the island of Crete. Europe is one of the seven continents that came about after the great flood. The Minoans were possibly named from a Greek mythological character named King Minos. They lived in a place that had rich farmland along the coast which enabled them to fish and to travel by sea. They traded with people from Egypt, Syria, and the southern islands of the Aegean. Their capital city was Knossos, where a large palace had been built.
One of the things that the people in this culture did was to create an early Greek alphabet called, "Linear A". They had many paintings that portrayed festivals like 'bull-leaping'. The people were a pleasure seeking people.
The Minoans probably had some form of belief of eternal life. The dead people were buried with possessions that they were to take with them in the after-life. This civilization probably ended by volcanic activity and by being attacked by a group of people called the Myceneans.
Here is a web site that talks about linear A: http://natasha-sheldon.suite101.com/linear-a-and-linear-b-script-a150463
ReplyDeleteHere is what it says: Dating from 1450BC, Linear A survives mainly on rectangular clay tablets and on some religious objects such as offering tables. The largest single collection of evidence comes from the palace of Ayia Triada where 150 small clay tablets were found, recording lists of stored goods from various people or places.
Find out more on this web site. Also information on Linear B.