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Survey of the Ancient World
200. Rise of
Cretan civili-
zation under
Egyptian
influence
(3000-
2000 B.C.)
high-civilization on the north side of the Mediterranean gre*
up. From the beginning the leader in this island civilization of
the ^Egeans was Crete. The little sun-dried-brick villages, for111'
ing the Late Stone Age settlements of Crete, received copper
from the ships of the Nile by 3000 B.C. They soon learned to
make bronze, and thus the Bronze Age began in Crete after
Fig. 58. An Open-Air Theatral Area beside the
Cretan Palace at Cnossus (§ 202)
This area is about thirty by forty feet, and on two sides rise tiers °^
seats, accommodating four or five hundred spectators. Open-air athlete
spectacles, like boxing matches, probably took place here to divert
select groups of Cretan lords and ladies; the area is not large enough
for the bullfights, in which the Cretans took great delight (compare the
exciting bull hunt at end of Chapter IV, p. 106)
3000 B.C. While the great pyramids of Egypt were being
built, the Cretan craftsmen were learning from their Egyptian
neighbors the use of the potter's wheel, the closed oven for
burning pottery (§ 54), and many other important things-
For some time the Cretans had been employing rude picture
records like Fig. 11. Under the influence of Egypt these picture
signs gradually developed into real phonetic writing (Fig. 55)'
the earliest writing in the ^Egean world (about 2000 B.C.).
Survey of the Ancient World
200. Rise of
Cretan civili-
zation under
Egyptian
influence
(3000-
2000 B.C.)
high-civilization on the north side of the Mediterranean gre*
up. From the beginning the leader in this island civilization of
the ^Egeans was Crete. The little sun-dried-brick villages, for111'
ing the Late Stone Age settlements of Crete, received copper
from the ships of the Nile by 3000 B.C. They soon learned to
make bronze, and thus the Bronze Age began in Crete after
Fig. 58. An Open-Air Theatral Area beside the
Cretan Palace at Cnossus (§ 202)
This area is about thirty by forty feet, and on two sides rise tiers °^
seats, accommodating four or five hundred spectators. Open-air athlete
spectacles, like boxing matches, probably took place here to divert
select groups of Cretan lords and ladies; the area is not large enough
for the bullfights, in which the Cretans took great delight (compare the
exciting bull hunt at end of Chapter IV, p. 106)
3000 B.C. While the great pyramids of Egypt were being
built, the Cretan craftsmen were learning from their Egyptian
neighbors the use of the potter's wheel, the closed oven for
burning pottery (§ 54), and many other important things-
For some time the Cretans had been employing rude picture
records like Fig. 11. Under the influence of Egypt these picture
signs gradually developed into real phonetic writing (Fig. 55)'
the earliest writing in the ^Egean world (about 2000 B.C.).