The Minoans: The First Great European Civilization (The legend of Atlantis) - See U in History
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- Great Civilizations: The Minoans: The First Great European Civilization (The legend of Atlantis)
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Stories from Crete from Greek mythology was always my favorite and had my best interest, with Talos , Laybrith , the islands and how they was created, the whitebull and Jason and the Argonauts. Now finding out that Atlantis could have an connection with Crete is even greater.
Truly the golden age of mankind.
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@@moorishsociety7339 - 😆😆😆😆
the Minoans were such a fascinating people. It's a shame so much of their history and culture has been lost.
It has not been lost, it is being kept hidden otherwise it will expose the lies of the Neanderthal bloodline.
This is probably one the best videos on the Minoan culture told in 11+ minutes that I've seen. You covered everything that is both the most interesting and important for someone that is looking for a brief introduction to the topic. Great visuals and story telling. Very well done. This one is going on my "recommendation" playlist. I loved it.
Fascinating to learn more about Minoans. I imagine them in a fantasy universe with minotaurs serving as their elite heavy infantry. and Talos and possibly other bronze giants as their siege weapons.
There was only one Minotaur, the punishment of Minos from Poseidon for not sacrificing the white bull, Poseidon made the wife of Minos to fall in love with the bull and do the nasty 😉 with the bull.
His wife got pregnant and gave birth to Minotaur, half man half bull.
It could simply be teratogenesis, a child born with a dismorphy that the priests said it was a punishment for gods for not following the rituals of gods.
@@annas4843 yes I know there was only one minotaur in Greek mythology. But in a fantasy universe it doesn't have to be 100% accurate. Like in warcraft games one continent has minotaurs, centaurs and harpies fighting against each other. It can't be a coincidence that the island is full of Greek mythological creatures. But their version of minotaur is based on Native Americans and their centaurs are based on Mongolians so maybe it was just a coincidence
@@ziljin well in Creta it was based on the fact that the wife had s3x with a bull.
The monstrous looking children, or teratogenesis, used to be though as punishment from Gods, something unnatural.
It’s good when you learn about a civilization to also understand what kind of social norm they were trying to describe, not just what is shown in video games which is for entertainment purposes.
More amazing content. The art style always blows me away.👌
The sentence "who was a son of Zeus in greek mythology" can be applied to a lot of people.
I have been an archaeologist for over 35 years. I am now trying to buy an area of land on Crete to conduct excavations and would welcome significant interest.
I'd be interested in joining out to help :)
The Minoan supreme goddess is likely a manifestation of mother nature (proto-Gaea) and/or Chaos.
It is interesting consider that the Titans might have been the gods of the post-Minoan Greeks, and the Olympians the gods of the classical Greeks. The usurpation of each successive pantheon of gods may well be what is recorded in Greek mythology.
Anil Palan interesting....
@Ario but the video says that these Minoans are the first civilisation of Europe? I'm confused
@@reehji The line between a unique and coherent civilisation and a broader one common to different people is not always clear.
People of the same area develop common traits, especially in religion.
In the prototype of western civilisation there's indeed the cult in various forms of a mother goddess.
@@reehji Bulgarian Culture is WAY more ancient
@@nara808 ?!?! Bulgarians arrived in the Balkans in after the 5th century AD??? Are you referring to the bulgarian slavs? Or the bulgar turks? Either way, both of these came to Europe way after the Minoan were long gone.
Sounds intriguing and fascinating, thank you!
Very fascinating & beautiful drawing in a video full of historical accuracy & content. Totally respect this channel.
I'm currently playing Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.
I'm on Krete just after defeating the minotaur.
Me too
Same
Same, but now i return to older saves and go back there to Krete. Greece fascinates me
The Athenian prince Theseus killed the Minotaur.
Can’t beleive the Minotaur story but can’t deny the existence of d labyrinth either. Didn’t realize their palace was so big.
Thinking about it though the minotaur could have been some big dude in a mask acting like some kind of weird executioner hide and seek game
Tricky Foxx yeah they say a lotta legends that sound impossible have some grain of truth in them, but gets distorted w time.
@@trickyfoxx6941 Such a cool idea.
@@thetreatment498 right imagine you are thrown in this dark maze with some big bullheaded looking thing chasing you and also in the dark like that you would not even need it to be a good mask to pull it off
Maybe the Minotaur is allegorical?
Well, this video saved me from devoting my life to finding Atlantis. 🙄😄😄
Me and you could go on expedition? 👀
AI's?
Poseidon created Atlantis.. he took some people from Egypt and brought them there and showed them the secrets of the world...
Poseidon was an Annunaki, so he was powerful and knew a lot of things about the universe
It does exist, checknout my comment
Ronny Quatre sounds like you’ve been playing too much assassins creed
I first read the title as "Minotaurs" the first great European civilization, and I thought wow, this channel took a hard turn! 🧚♀️🧜♀️🎅🐱🏍🧙♂️
A lot of bull
😂
Should read: "Minotaurs:" Europe's Great Civilization!!
I’m usually not interested in this stuff but i dont know why I find it so interesting thank you so much
Good video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I can never get enough information.
Great show as always. Keep up the good work guys.
Great video!!! Many aspects of the Minoan civilization contain secret knowledge that may be explained through archaeoastronomy. This is the field I am working on, the astronomic alignment of Minoan sites, frescos, statues, and symbols.
Nice vid man
I was reading the History of Western Philosophy and ended up here. This video summarises the first three pages of the book.
Bronze Age was definitely the time to live
Do your think was the best time ?
Yeah! F*ck the 70s! Bronze Age rules! 😂
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like it after spending a day there you know with all those diseases,wars,superstition,Improper medical systems,tribal raids,slavery, xenophobia, and homophobia safe to say it'd a pretty terrible vacation trip/place to visit but hey look at the bright side at least you can see the pyramids being built
You living in the best/worst time ever
The period of the bronze age collaps was not a time you’d like to experience. Many people around the mediterrainian most have though it was the end of the world. Some argue that this is reflected in the Exodus.
While it's a concise short recap of the Minoan history, the information is rather extremely strongly generalised and glosses over many hypotheses created to explain the archeological findings. If you're really interested in this topic, please go find a book.
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9:50 This subject interests me in regards to Idomeneus. Wasn't Idomeneus supposed to be the grandson of King Minos? So would that make him Minoan or Myceanean? I know in the Illiad it mentions Idomeneus was held in high regard along with Agamemnon, and that he sent 80(?) ships to Troy since he was a suitor of Helen's.
Thank you I enjoyed this
Santorini's chunami not only brought unthinkable disaster in Minoans buildings that the strong architecture kept some buildings as many parts of the palace in grate situation but.....this tsunami reach kilometers outside the egypt drowning fields and overflow nile river that was even bigger and wider than today!
I love when you post these
Interesting story good job
So it's the Minoans who invented bull fighting
Technically not bull fighting, and more humane than what the horrible spaniards do to them.
@3:20 it's same as tamil culture. The festival is call jallikattu where they fight with the bull and the last man standing or the one who tames the bull is the winner and also bull is sacred for indian mythology.
@Anthony Tsatsis that,becouse minoans is ancient iranics phoenicia sea peoples maurytania mix tunis algers ancestors of greeks jewish,,,,the arabs jewish ismael come later in this era 700 in middle east and mediteraneans coast near anatolia ,iran the bull baall is from canaan deity,
@Anthony Tsatsis some of minoans is fleed with ships in italy napoly but they not escape from volcano etna even there , is similar story, and spain ,who know is to old this history but similar napoli dezastre vezuvio
is suposed some ancient tamill sanskritt iranics to go with ships in anatolia and mixed with tunis alger maurytania on trades after they fleed in north africa maybe rome italy or napoly there is same disastre or in spain same sport with bull 80 procent ay thing they was tamill malaylam they buyld large ships suryavarna king who conkered large part of south east asia in alliance sciyians saka ,and sanskrit was writen in ankor watt wall becousemaurytania is recoknise much large ships was come and stay in maurytania they look tammil indians on face and arabics, becouse after the go minoans the greeks is coming from carthages north africa mediteranean coast , and rebuild the city of crete santorinii,
but romeo unfortunately is not evidence source about tamiils to by minoans is only evidence of tamill suryavarma in south east asia you undestand what ay say the evidence is best source like scityians iranians speakers mix mongols siberyans turkhis ,canaanites sons of hittites , canaanites.
@Poua Kai As another poster noted, Minoan men worked outdoors and thus were tanned. The women are typically depicted with no coloring. But also, it seems ancient peoples, including the Minoans, also colored themselves with red ochre. It looks dark skinned in their paintings, but it is the red coloring that is actually being depicted.
Love from a cretan living near Knossos 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
I was station in Crete from 1987-1990 :: I lived one mile from the Knossos Palace.... I made friends with the people and had some very good experiences on the Island..
Love the art. Any sources?
The art is from the walls of Minoan buildings. The one with the three women is my favorite.
@@ricardogalvan1031 I know. I was talking about the modern depictions. Thanks anyway.
@@ricardogalvan1031 That's a modern depiction not an Ancient one.
So Minoans continued as Greeks .
Correct me if im wrong but i think the mycenean ships set sail from Aulis which is located in Boeotia(central Greece) and not from crete
It seems like the kind of place I would love to pass by
Nice to gain knowledge about the Minoan civilisation!
Interesting linking it to Atlantis is cool
It is by far one of the more logical explanations out there 😂
I like to see a video you can make about the sea people none of those interesting kind of Raiders from the minoan civilization or during the Bronze Age collapse every civilization were affected by them well some
I love this👏👏
Eveil Men and Mother Nature seems to knock man down when all things seem to be going well for them.
dude, this is cool😊😊😊
what were the real name of this people?. arthur evans he just picked the name minoans i bet they didn't use that term themself self
Not sure, why dont you go ask one?
Crackpot theory, one of the Sea Peoples was called the Pelesut by the Egyptians. The Pelesut would later settle near Gaza and become the Philistines. The bible says the Philistines came from Crete, the name Pelesut has odd similarities to the Pelasgians who were said to be the inhabitants of Greece before the Hellenes.
In another presentation it was said that the people of Crete were written about in other cultures and that it seems they called themselves "Keftis"?
Minions are an awesome culture.
One thing, that I didn't notice at first, you claim that Minoans arrived to Greece during the Middle Paleolithic, 128,000 BC. That 's not the main topic of this video, but where did you get such data? The only thing that comes to my mind is the skull of Apidima 1, which is really found in Greece and dated to the Middle Paleolithic. The owner of the skull had probobly been a mixture of Anathomically Modern Human and Neanderthal. But it is not 128,000 years old, but around 210,000 years old. Secondly, the fact that a group of anatomically modern humans had arrived to Europe already in these times, doesn't certainly mean that they are the direct ancestors of later Europeans. This early exodus from out of Africa either died out or mixed with the Neanderthals that inhabited Europe at the time. Anatomically Modern Human began to replace Neanderthals in Europe around 45,000 years ago, and this was a completely new migration from out of Africa. But the ancestors of the Minoans were probably mainly Anatolian farmers who arrived to Europe around 7,000 BC.
@Eques Corvi "There's no such thing as the paleolithic, its a complete fabrication" --- Could you explain more about this ?
@Eques Corvi Minoan civilization dates back much earlier. Around 3650-2900 BC and its called Prepalatial Period
@Yaqub-Har Minoans date back to the 3000s BCE
Do the Polynesia
Waiting for albanians claiming minoans as illyrian
Ahahahahahah nah
nah they look 2 black 2 be illyrians
Worse is Afrocentrists claiming they were black.
@Mullerornis yes... the men were black and the women were white..very scientific ...
@Mullerornis my man... i dont mean that they were white like scandinavians!!! when we say white race we mean many different phenotypes like all the other races too!! of course they were not like north populations but also of course thy were not asians or blacks.. they had a natural mediterrenean agean colour like normal people. yes they were dark skinned less or more depending the expose they had due to the sun. the melanine rates are natural and of course differantiate from person to person. one man that is all his life under the sun as a labor or a sea man would be more dark skinned than another who is in an urban area. this is sth rational
first civilization was Danubian civilization-Vinca culture, Lepenski vir, Cucuteni Tripolian culture and more
They didn't have coins back then, they wouldn't start being used hundreds of years later
dates for many types of tech get pushed back as the fossil record and other sources expand
I'm amazed by these pictures! Their authenticity and presentation,i love them!
Who made these pictures?
@Easy Bandz Its crazy, Europe wasn't even a nation or even an after thought during the Bronze Age. The island of Crete isn't close to England, but its a boat ride away from Africa. Artist's depictions are always lighter than the actual wall murals. Institutional racism.
@Easy Bandz They're not black. They're all white.
Google Arturo Gatti and thats what they looked like
Depicting a human in one tone will always look darker or lighter than it actually is.
Thats why some are reddish brown (summer tan) and some are extremely white (winter pale)
If you google Arturo Gatti (From Sicily) you'll see pictures where he is very brown (While living in the US and Brazil), and pictures where he is very very pale (While living in Canada when he was young)
@@Unknown-ot1zr weak.
@Easy Bandz hi, archaeologist here. They were neither black or white by the modern standards of what race means. They would have looked most similar to the modern peoples of the levant, where it is most likely their ancestors came from. Please don’t mistake historical artistic styles as all trying to accurately depict peoples skin colour, as such is folly
I read this as the “minimoans”
2:50 looks like Michael Jackson
Amir Mili Haha 😂 it kinda does look like him
@T-REX THE DINO lol😂
@@CRD-hi6vk yes it does😂
Because He was a Native Black men, repainted white. Smh
@@user-mq6qv6bi2g i wouldn't say "black"
Great video, great channel. Liked and subscribed.
Watching this from a sunbed in Kolymbari, Crete 😄
There is trend with everybody saying they read the title wrong
Nice video! Just a side note, the Aegean island north of Crete is not called Santorini, it's called Thera or Thira. Santorini is just the largest town situated upon it.
Actually, although Thera is its Greek official name, Santorini is also a past name from the 13th century (a contraction of Saint Irene)and it's still used unofficial name. Thera was revived in the 19th century. There is no town of Santorini. The towns of Santorini/Thera are Oia, Imerovigli, Firastephani, and the capital Fira.
thanks for the new info :) very helpful to my students :)
Can you add the name of the artist from which you probably stole this artwork for thumbnail? Thanks
Their drawings look like my family😳😳
Can you tell us the source for 5:23? Good art
The eruption of the Santorini volcano created tsunamis that drowned the Minoan civilization
So basically in star wars its space kaminoan
Only problem with your assertion that Atlantis was a legend based off of the Minoans is that it does not match the story told by plato. Why would some things be similar, and others be completely different. 🤔. I absolutely love the history and the learning of the fascinating Minoans. The history of the Atlantians is still to be drawn out. It is not a settled matter.
It's basing it on the assumption that Plato's story was just that, a story. So if that were true, some things would match and some things would just be Plato's imagination. Nobody knows the truth, though. Unfortunately.
@Megan Dean Plato himself said its true.
@@ant208 Plato could be saying "This is true" like when Hollywood says "This movie is based on actual events", storytellers do sometimes do things like that.
And those pirates could have been the start of the fabled "Sea peoples" that may have brought about the end of the Bronze Age...
I just watched a video about the Minoans. And it was saying that the Minoans were more than likely mining copper from the South shore of lake Superior we're over 5,000 ancient copper mines are located from about 3500 to 1000 BC
Maybe they were mycean the miners..we already have found ancient egypt hieroglyphic in Australia and we already know that the myceans were trading outside from Mediterranean all up to Scandinavia,maybe some of them they turned to the west like the vikings have done after centuries
Interesting the land is similar to Dwaraka
The bull always dies in spanish & previous events is to symbolize the end of the house of taurus. The red cape used ( also like supermans or other knights ) represents the god that ended the house.
The distance between Crete And Thera was the same between Cuba and Florida 60 to 90 miles
you weren't there with plato to know if he imagine things
There was no way Atlantis existed, it was a example of a place made up by Plato for a lesson
Atlantis was the Richat Structure.
Idk man. It is most likely that. However, the history of the story of atlantis actually dated back to ancient egypt. Plato got the details of Atlantis from them. So, perhaps, there COULD be at least some truth to Atlantis. I’m not going on a crazy conspiracy here, I’m just saying. “Atlantis” could have existed, in some way. Maybe not the fantastical amazing civilization that we think of today.
Greek here I agree with you,people don't read the full story of the events and the persons and why he said that story to them.he was trying to teach them a lesson.its pretty obvious if you read the book.i hate that ignorance of people with fairtales and making theories out of nothing and deleting the great leason he gave.its embarrassing
@@game-enjoyer13 no truth whatever except as an allegory made-up by Plato.
Minoan civilization is proto-Georgian (Colchis) civilization, We are here, we have not disappeared and we still have a state 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪 The Minoan script can only be read in Georgian languages.
Do the Minoans travel around, the world for Materials for rebuilding their Palace?
geneticists compared the frequencies of distinct DNA lineages, known as "haplogroups", in this ancient Minoan set with similar data for 135 other populations, including ancient samples from Europe and Anatolia as well as modern peoples.
The comparison ruled out an origin for the Minoans in North Africa: the ancient Cretans showed no genetic similarity to Libyans, Egyptians or the Sudanese. They were also genetically distant from populations in the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudis, and Yemenis.
The ancient Minoan DNA was most similar to populations from western and northern Europe. The population showed particular genetic affinities with Bronze Age populations from Sardinia and Iberia and Neolithic samples from Scandinavia and France.
They also resembled people who live on the Lassithi Plateau today, a population that has previously attracted attention from geneticists.
The authors therefore conclude that the Minoan civilisation was a local development, originated by inhabitants who probably reached the island around 9,000 years ago, in Neolithic times.
About their language, unfortunatly, we know nothing. Linear A is not deciphered yet. We need a Michael Ventris and John Chadwick. A Greek friend, Demetrios.
This is interesting . I'm now gonna go look up the haplogroup percentages of modern Cretans to see how they relate to Anatolians, as well as other people's. Anyone can do it
DNA confirms Minoans were indigenous Europeans.
DNA confirmed Minoan DNA was similar to Sardinian and with neolithic samples from Scandinavia and France.
Consider the Carians.
I ve read (I'm not sure if its 100% true though) that a shepherd in Crete found a cave with some really weird ancient items in it and notified the authorities and after that they transferred them in a museum(if I recall correctly in heraklion) and we never heard of them again. He later said(the shepherd) that they items look liked they are from another planet).I dont remember exactly the details of the story but if someone is interested in it he/she google it or sth.
Wow that is interesting, maybe those items are the remnants of a civilization which inhabited Crete even before the Minoans.
@@varun-xu8gv yes it could be possible. If you want I can find the article and translate it to you
Try to remember the source, I would like to see that.
@@kwstma9901 sure, that will be so kind of you 👍
I think you are referring to the disc of phaistos
Man oh man
This is beautiful content; Thx so much
Last time Nibiru ( 12th planet in the solar system) passed , the whooe of the Minoan civilization went under the water. And that planet is heading back !!!!
Do you have any sourse for that
@@idealoading look for interviews of Bob dean, then ancient Egyptian and sumerian history (not the mainstream ones) , Bock saga transcripts, Atlantis, Ascension mechanics.
One is for sure our history taught is complete misinformation.
These topics are a good way of decoding our reality. Gather the knowledge and connect the dots. There is no direct link for my comment. Hope this info helps
@@rohaninitiative6058 ah at last our reptilian overlords would be back!
Perfect video love from Greece
"king minos was the son of zeus"
me: yeah you'll have to elaborate further-
NOOO WHY IS THIS CHANNEL DYING??!
I just looked up the origin of the word and learned that our word for idiot, "cretin" had nothing to do with people from Crete, "Cretans"
buono a sapersi
Idiot is still a greek word though, it means "own or private". Idiot originally meant a person who is only after their own interest, not the interest of the many. This was perceived as stupidity in greece, for when people put their own (private) interest before the common good, there comes a time where their own interest is also not served. Whereas, if they put the common good first, their private interest would be served in the long run too. Cretan and cretin are not related, but it's a fun pun 😉
Where do they find these narrators???
Artificial voice...
So, the Greeks were the Barbarians to Minoans😊!
New thing to know
You didn't mention thier language or religions?
Their language is kinda of a mystery. We have some scriptures of them. But...we still cant decipher them. And their religion is kinda a proto version of that of the classical Greeks.
Dude sounds like Sulu from Star Trek
yesss
this video is incredibly awesome
I'm not 100% sure, but I think there was no coins in these times.
@Anthony Tsatsis if they make swords for sure they made even the coins to business,
@@Yui-ou9ls To my knowledge, the earliest coins date from Anatolia in the 7th century BC. Minoan civilization disappeared during the Late Bronze Age collapse, in around 11th century BC. Maybe you mean of a little later coins from the island of Crete?
Where we get, " grab the bull by the horns "
Myth? Ever hear of the Eye if Mauritania? fits Plato's description to a 'T'...look it up
“Minotaur was the son of Zeus”
Understatement of the century
Grandson. He said king Minos, the father of the Minotaur, was son of Zeus
What exactly is this?
Ahhh Greek history Minoan civilazition tye first 🇬🇷
They were not Greeks , Greeks are indo European people who migrated to Greece from south Russia around 2000-1700BCE
@@user-kd8pr4zr4i what did u say bruh 😂😂 U are the most unducated person I have ever seen
@@user-lc1fb5cn5y Greek is Indo European language. And all indo Europeans languages originated from proto indo European language was originated in south Russia or steppe
@@user-kd8pr4zr4i Greek Lauange is the oldest in Europe and has nothing to do with indo European. Latin was made by greek launage and the 50 %of English is Latin an dthe other 59 % is greek
@@user-lc1fb5cn5y Latin and Greek both indo European languages but latin is italic and Greek is Hellenic
5:05 The Minoans didn't have coins. Coins wouldn't be invented until many centuries after they were gone
Just for some clarification. Plato did not imagine Atlantis. King Solomon had an excerpt from an ancient text translated when he went to Egypt. Plato has access to this translated text that contained information about the city of Atlantis. Plato just passed on this knowledge.
Also Plato and Solomon were relatives
Source?
Greek recovery from debt is like Atlantis : still looking for it.
Are you a mongol albanian?
Do you make fun from the suffering and struggle of s whole nation?
My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather visit the city
mhm 😊
Not enough greats
Will people ask in 5000 years who we were?
Richat Structure gang where you at?
I got so mad when he said Minos meEnoO