. The war and the Bagdad Railway; the story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict . d to thatof the interior is paralleled by the totally differentaspect of the earliest settlements along the ^geanSea from the conditions that led to the rise ofpowerful states in the interior. The western coastof Asia Minor appears to have been settled in veryearly days through ^gean traders coming probablyfrom Crete where, as the remarkable excavations ofthe last two decades have shown, a high degree ofcivilization, more commonly spoken of as Minoan,was developed between c. 3000 and 2500
. The war and the Bagdad Railway; the story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict . d to thatof the interior is paralleled by the totally differentaspect of the earliest settlements along the ^geanSea from the conditions that led to the rise ofpowerful states in the interior. The western coastof Asia Minor appears to have been settled in veryearly days through ^gean traders coming probablyfrom Crete where, as the remarkable excavations ofthe last two decades have shown, a high degree ofcivilization, more commonly spoken of as Minoan,was developed between c. 3000 and 2500 Itreached its height about 1600 , but long ere this sentits offshoots to the Grecian mainland, notably toArgos. The great castles and palaces of Mycenaeand Tiryns, excavated by Schlieman, are the worksof these ^geans coming from Crete, and there aretraces of such settlements and influences proto-Greek civilization, commonly spoken ofas Mycenean, thus turns out to be of Cretan , these ^geans came to the coast of AsiaMinor, and in time a powerful kingdom with Troy.
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