They built ships from oak and cedar trees and sailed as far as Egypt and Syria.
They learned to make bronze from the Sumerians. Minoans were a great trading power in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Minoans traded with the peoples of the Fertile crescent and learned much of its culture.
Powered by sails and oars, Minoan vessels carried goods from the Black sea, to the Nile Valley, and to Phoenicia
The Minoans exchanged olive oil, pottery, honey, and wine for gold, precios stones, grain, and linen.
And the Aegean civilization -passed to the early Greeks called Mycenaean.
Minoan Society was transformed by invaders from the Greek mainland.
Activities like tanning of leather, sewing clothes, making jars for wine and olive oil, and forging and crafting of bronze swords .
In a mycenaean kingdom, a palace was on a hill. Giant stonewall sorrounds the palace. Outside the palace walls lay large farms or estates taht belonged to the nobles. On these estates lvied the farmers and slaves.
At about 1,400 BCE, the Mycenaean became the major power in the Mediterranean.
In Mycenae, Trade was an essential activity. They traded ore to produce bronze weapons and tools. Mycenaean pottery was exporyted to the coast of italy, egypt, syris, palestine, and Cyprus.
By 1,100 BCE, The Mycenaean civilization came to an end.
The flourishing society of Mycenae came to an utter devastation that even the art of writing was lost.