The Battle of Crete Crete‚ the largest of the islands in the southern Mediterranean‚ was the site of one of the most unique battles in World War 2. Using airborne troops Hitler invaded Crete on the 20th of May 1941. The three main causes of the battle was Mussolini’s invasion of Greece‚ Crete’s strategic importance and the Paratroopers wanting to prove themselves. The consequences can be seen from all three of the main fighting sides; the Germans‚ the Allies and the Cretans. Each with different
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| The Battle of Crete: Important or Insignificant? | The Battle of Crete began May 20th‚ 1941. Nazi Germany launched an airborne attack called Operation Merkur or Operation Mercury on the island of Crete. This battle will be important because it will hold great influence over the course of the war in the means of power. The Greek‚ Allied forces and even civilians attempted to defend the island and after day one the Germans suffered heavy casualties. The next day‚ the Allies were confident
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whose palaces were on hilltops‚ enclosed within huge walls‚ which were very easy to defend. Mycenae with its impressive Gate of Lions became the dominating power in the Peloponese. These palaces soon appeared all over Greece‚ but unlike those on Crete‚ these were all huge fortifications and much more difficult to penetrate. As with the Cycladic Civilisation‚ an impressive legacy was also left by the Mycenaean Civilisation in the form of gold jewellery and ornaments. A collection of these treasures
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to get her‚ Zeus transformed himself into a magnificent bull and with it persuaded Europa to climb on his back. With Europa on his back‚ Zeus sped off to the island of Crete. After reaching the island‚ Zeus resumed in his manly form again. From Europa and Zeus their son Minos was born. When Minos was older‚ he became the King of Crete marrying Pasiphae. Minos was seen as a great ruler. He was particularly famous for his justice and law codes. One time during a ceremony Zeus offered Minos a brilliant
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/ˈmaɪnəs/; Greek: Μίνως‚ Minōs) was the first King of Crete‚ son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years‚ he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus’s creation‚ the labyrinth‚ to be eaten by the Minotaur. After his death‚ Minos became a judge of the dead in the underworld. The Minoan civilization of Crete has been named after him by the archaeologist Arthur Evans. By his wife‚ Pasiphaë (or some say Crete)‚ he fathered Ariadne‚ Androgeus‚ Deucalion‚ Phaedra
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Domenicos Theotocopoulos‚ otherwise known as El Greco‚ was born in Crete in 1541 and died in 1614‚ Domenicos was a talented Cretan painter‚ architect‚ and sculptor. He was given the name El Greco‚ translated literally as "the Greece"‚ because he was born on the island of Crete in 1521 and at that time Crete belonged to Greece. El Greco lived on the island of Crete until the age of 25 when he left to explore the world. In Venice‚ El Greco worked under Titian who was considered the Great Master
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Greece: The Bronze Age – Society in Minoan Crete Everyday Life (1) By Emily Gold Entertainment and leisure activities: Acrobatics was used in most leisure activities that the Minoan people used to keep themselves entertained‚ as running and leaping supplied to success in warfare ad hunting. Bull-leaping was the most famed and controversial of all Minoan sports‚ this sport consists of an athlete who would sprint head-long at a charging bull‚ grab the bulls horns and jump onto its back‚ then the athlete
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heavens (Glotz). As a weapon the double axe lends the human arm a superhuman force to master and destroy life‚ as a sacrificial object‚ it is brought into communion with men (Glotz). The significance of the double axe was to sacrifice bulls ("About Crete - The Minoans - Minoan Places of Worship and Religion”). The bull was the most common animal that the Minoans worshipped. The bull was a powerful and almost divine creature that is full of male potent energy (Glotz). The sacred horn of the bull
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The island of Crete‚ which lies in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea‚ has been heavily contested by differing civilizations over the past three-thousand years. But before first conquests for the island began‚ a civilization developed on the island to such an advanced degree that it would become Greek legend. These first civilized inhabitants of Crete have become known as the Minoans‚ named after King Minos. In the two-thousand years of the Minoan people‚ they rose from simple farmers to a great
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There have been many stories over the years that have captured the imaginations of men but none so much as the Plato’s story about the Lost City if Atlantis. So is this story fact or fiction? Well nobody really knows‚ but there have been a lot of guesses and theories over the years‚ some with evidence and some without. It was Plato who first gave us the story about the city of Atlantis around 355 B.C. In Plato’s books he uses a type of writing where he used conversations between different people
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