Crete’s island was covered with mountains and valleys. The rich soil and mild climate made Crete a good place to live. Their technology called the plow made it easy to grow more crops in rain-watered regions and civilization was able to spread beyond the river valleys. People living by the sea and ocean can supplement agriculture by fishing. In the eastern Mediterranean, these factors contributed to the rise of civilization on the island of Crete.
Although scholars still have not figured out the origins of the first people of Crete, it is obvious that around 2000 BC the Cretans had made a strong civilization. Their civilization was all about great palace complexes, the famous one at Knossos. Historian named the civilization Minoan, after t
The decline of the Minoan civilization might have begun with a big disaster. A little bit before 1500 BC, a dangerous volcanic eruption happened on the nearby island of Thera, almost 70 miles north of the Cretan coast. The eruption was so strong that it made a tidal wave that flooded A lot of Crete. The cloud of ash that came from the volcano ruined crops and buried a lot of the Minoan cities.
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