Minoan culture was wealthy and magnificent. Took place in the Bronze Age. King Minos, the powerful King whom the later Greeks believed had once ruled far and wide from Crete, dominating the Aegean Sea. Much about them remains a mystery b/c of the nature of the evidence. Minoan civilization flourished from 1900 B.C. until the middle of the second millennium B.C. Contemporary with the Middle Kingdom Egypt, Hammurabi, and the Hittite Old Kingdom. …showed first 75 words of 854 total…

…showed last 75 words of 854 total…professed little use for innovation or change. There defense of tradition and its military-social system made it an object t of admiration throughout the Greek world, though few had any desire to live that way themselves. Because the only was to become a Spartiate was by birth, the number of full Spartiates declined from as many as ten thousand in the 6th cent to only a few thousand by the beginning of the 4th cent.