Category:Minoan civilization

Template:Cat main Template:Commons cat Articles relating to the Minoan civilization, a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from Template:CircaTemplate:Nbsp3500Template:NbspBC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000Template:NbspBC, and then declining from Template:CircaTemplate:Nbsp1450Template:NbspBC until it ended around 1100Template:NbspBC, during the early Greek Dark Ages, part of a wider Late Bronze Age collapse around the Mediterranean. It represents the first advanced civilization in Europe, leaving behind a number of massive building complexes, sophisticated art, and writing systems. Its economy benefited from a network of trade around much of the Mediterranean.