Research, Minoan Crete/Caphtor surrounding cultures.
This tree might look pretty random to most people, but believe me, it isn't. Ever since NaNoWriMo (look it up) last November, I'm a changed girl. Ask me pretty much any question about Minoan culture, archaeology, and history/legends surrounding Minoan Crete and I bet I can come up with a pretty solid answer. I'll have a link to my book sometime... :)
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Amorite
Amorite ( Sumerian 𒈥𒌅 MAR.TU , Akkadian Tidnum or Amurrūm , Egyptian Amar , Hebrew אמורי ʼĔmōrī ) refers to an ancient Semitic -speaking people [ 1 ] from ancient Syria who also occupied large parts of Mesopotamia from the 21st Century BC.
Map showing the Babylonian territory upon Hammurabi's ascension in c. 1792 BC and upon his death in c. 1750 BC
Hammurabi
Susa
Susa ( Persian : شوش Shush [ʃuʃ] ; Greek : Σοῦσα [ˈsuːsa] ; Syriac: ܫܘܫ Shush ; Old Persian Çūšā -; Biblical Hebrew שׁוּשָׁן Shushān ) was an ancient city of the Elamite , Persian and Parthian empires of Iran . It is located in the lower Zagros Mountains about 250 km (160 mi) east of the Tigris River , between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers.
Elam
Elam [ pronunciation? ] ( Persian : عیلام ) was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran , stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan ( Persian : خوزستان ) and Ilam Province ( Persian : عیلام ), as well as a small part of southern Iraq . The modern name Elam is a transcription from Biblical Hebrew , corresponding to the Sumerian elam(a) , the Akkadian elamtu , and the Elamite haltamti.
Hurrian language
Hurrian is a conventional name for the language of the Hurrians (Khurrites), a people who entered northern Mesopotamia around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC . Hurrian was the language of the Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, and was likely spoken at least initially in Hurrian settlements in Syria . It is generally believed that the speakers of this language originally came from the Armenian mountains and spread over southeast Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. [ 1 ]Mitanni
Map of the near east circa 1400 BCE showing the Kingdom of Mitanni at its greatest extent Mitanni ( Hittite cuneiform KUR URU Mi-ta-an-ni , also Mittani Mi-it-ta-ni ) or Hanigalbat ( Assyrian Hanigalbat, Khanigalbat cuneiform Ḫa-ni-gal-bat ) was an Hurrian -speaking state in northern Syria and south-east Anatolia from ca. 1500 BC–1300 BC. Founded by an Indo-Aryan ruling class governing a predominately Hurrian population, Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Amorite [ 1 ] Babylon, and a series of ineffectual Assyrian kings created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia.
Coordinates : Anatolia (from Greek Ἀνατολή , Anatolē — "east" or "(sun)rise"), also known as Asia Minor (from Greek : Μικρὰ Ἀσία Mikrá Asía "small Asia"; in modern Turkish: Anadolu ), Asian Turkey , Anatolian peninsula , Anatolian plateau , and Turkey , denotes the westernmost protrusion of Asia , comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey . [ 1 ] The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.
Anatolia
Ur ( Sumerian : Urim ; [ 1 ] Sumerian Cuneiform : 𒋀𒀕𒆠 URIM 2 KI or 𒋀𒀊𒆠 URIM 5 KI ; [ 2 ] Akkadian : Uru ; [ 3 ] Arabic : أور ) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar ( Arabic : تل المقير ) in Iraq 's Dhi Qar Governorate . [ 4 ] Once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf , Ur is now well inland, south of the Euphrates on its right bank, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from Nasiriyah . [ 5 ] The city dates from the Ubaid period circa 3800 BC, and is recorded in written history as a City State from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesh-Ane-pada .
Ur
Ziggurat of Ur
The Ziggurat of Ur (sometimes called the "Great Ziggurat of Ur"; Sumerian E-temen-nigur(u) É .TEMEN.NÍ.GÙR(U).(RU) 𒂍𒋼𒉎𒅍(𒊒) [ 1 ] meaning " house whose foundation creates terror ") [ 2 ] is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of Ur near Nasiriyah , in present-day Dhi Qar Province , Iraq .
Ur, Iraq
Situated near the town of Nasiriya, about 365 km south of Baghdad , Ur, which means a city in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages, is one of Iraq's most imposing ancient sites. It was the capital of the ancient civilization of Sumeria .Ancient Civilizations
Hittites is the conventional English-language term for an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language and established a kingdom centered in Hattusa (Hittite Hattushash) where today is the village of Bo azkÐy in north-central Turkey, through most of the second millennium BC. The Hittite kingdom, which at its height controlled central Anatolia, north-western Syria down to Ugarit, and Mesopotamia down to Babylon, lasted from roughly 1680 BC to about 1180 BC. After 1180 BC, the Hittite polity disintegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived as late as around 700 BC.
Hittites
Kassites
The Babylonian Empire under the Kassites.A language isolate , in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. Language isolates are in effect language families consisting of a single language. Commonly cited examples include Basque , Korean , Ainu and Burushaski , though in each case a minority of linguists claim to have demonstrated a relationship with other languages.
Language isolate
The Hittite version of the Kadesh peace agreement, which is the oldest surviving international treaty
Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty
Minoans - Thera. Crete, Troy
Minoan civilization
Map of Minoan CreteAncient Civilizations
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I used this to examine ancient Minoan seals. (Or, at least fakes.... note that many are not authenticated by the private sellers.) by Feb 15
Archaeological Museum Athens
Excellent examples of Mycenaean (probably early classical period.) art. by Feb 15