by Ironlily

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    6 months ago

    ah I’m not talking about Crete I’m talking about Santorini, as it’s presumed to be a Minoan town that got abs blasted

    Crete got cranked too tho amirite

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      6 months ago

      Huh, today I learnt, Minoans were settlers and had some settlements outside of Crete in nearby islands. I still couldn’t find info about Santorini itself, but you presumably have heard that piece of info somewhere, so I’ll take your word for it, random internet person.

      Which should be embarrassing, because I grew up in Crete, we studied Minoan history 3-4 times throughout school, and had multiple school trips to the various ruins.

      But nope. Just dates and languages, and some of the art (this piece’s clothes are historically accurate, actually. Lovely era).

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        6 months ago

        I got u bb

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_eruption

        First few sentences cover it; also in the earlier explanation I let “it” do much more than it should have. Santorini, now called Thera, is the island home to the settlement that got fuckin ROLLED

        I do not remember where I learnst this, but I have a vague feeling it was within the last 5 years in a news article - indicating that the settlement on Santorini/Thera being Minoan may post-date your schooling education

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          6 months ago

          This is all fascinating. Yeah, the island being basically an arms length around the volcano, would get it absolutely fucking blasted during an eruption lol

          Btw, according to Wikipedia citations, the book on Minoan colonialism (one of the three sources confirming the settling of the island around 1300bc), was published on 1981.

          So no, as cool as it would have been to have had a recent archeological discovery, this case was either a big lack of interest by the writers of the school books, or maybe just a touch of sanitization of history. It’s been done a lot to our school books. (Or maybe my memory didn’t catch a one-sentence note somewhere about “spreading to the Aegean sea”. It’s been many years after all)

          We thank the Minoan tiddy for bringing us this history lesson today.

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            6 months ago

            Praise be! And it’s cool af you grew up in Crete; quite jealous. I’d bear them breasts if it was my heritage! (My heritage is scrapple, it’s not quite as sexy - and definitely more greasy)