Evolution of Minoan Civilization

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Introduction:
The human race has not evolved in a day’s time and it took millions of years for man to
evolve into the present state. The evolution of the first humans to the modern man is journey of
time that moulded the cave men from being a hunter gatherer to a civilized human being of
today. The first men developed skills owing to their adaptive qualities to their surrounding and
started to settle down with the learning to produce food. The first men settled from being hunter
gatherers to cultivators starting to grow their own food. This journey of being a civilized being
will be discussed in this essay with context to the great Minoan to Civilization. All civilizations
had evolved through various stages of the process of being civilized. The paper will travel
through the farming practices of the Minoan civilization and their associated culture and rituals
that make them civilized. The following sections will go through the journey of the sedentary
farmers to the most privileged modern man.
A brief history of the Minoan Civilization
The Minoan Civilization was based on the Island of Crete located in the Mediterranean
Region from 2000BCE to 1500BCE and is believed to have flourished since the middle Bronze
Age. The Minoans were known for their exclusive expressive art and architecture and their trade
relations with other cultures. The most important contribution that the Minoan Civilization made
was to the development of the Western cultures. In fact the Western civilizations of today owe its
roots to the Minoan Civilization and the influence of the frescos, the architecture is evident in the
western cultures of today.

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Five Steps of the Minoan civilization
The five stages through which communities became civilizations, includes their evolution
through Sedentary Farmers, the Production Of Surplus Food the agriculture and technology that
guided it, the division of labour, urbanisation and the Culture that developed to transform it into
a civilization. The Minoan civilization had evolved through all the five stages and includes the
necessary elements that transformed it into one of the ancient civilizations of the world.
The sedentary farmers
The most important factor that reveals the sedentary nature of the Minoan people is their
irrigation system. The Minoans had incredible architectural modifications that indicate advanced
water distribution systems which were used to facilitate agriculture. The agricultural
modifications were done with respect to the water distributions systems (Bennet, 2016). The
various aqueducts and other archaeological evidences reveal that the Minoans were settlers with
agricultural practices in use and therefore can be attributed to sedentary farmers. Farming is one
of the primitive occupations that the early settlers performed and led to the production of food.
This technique of agriculture forced the travelling humans to settle down and paved the way for
the first civilizations. The Minoans were no different and with the modification in the water
distribution system, they established strong agricultural practices in their civilization (Shepherd,
2018).
Production of Surplus Food:
The production of the Surplus Food is the next stage in the development of any civilization
and the Minoan civilization has evidences of granaries and utensils that depict that they were
successful in producing extra food and supplies with agricultures. The discovery of Minoan Pottery
and the several utensils that have been found include a wide range of utensils. The archeological