Ancient Man and His First Civilizations

The Aegean: Fall of the Black Civilizations

Greece

Minoan culture reached its peak at about 1,600 B.C, and was noted for its cities and palaces, extended trade contacts, and use of writing (see Linear A and Linear B). Its art included elaborate seals, pottery, and notably, the vibrant frescoes decorating palace walls, which depicted both religious and secular scenes, including goddesses reflective of a matriarchal religion. Palace ruins show evidence of paved streets and piped water. Familiar Minoan art motifs are the snake (symbol of the goddess) and the bull and leaping dancer, also of mystical significance.

Prosperity and artistic achievement remained at a high level in the Aegean area until about 1,450 B.C, when all the great centers of Cretan culture were destroyed by earthquakes (probably connected with a cataclysmic eruption of the volcanic island of Thera). After these disasters, only the palace at Knossos was restored. At about 1,375 B.C, the palace at Knossos was destroyed by fire, Thereafter Crete was a second-class power and became somewhat of a cultural backwater.

Cyprus

Cyprus reached its highest degree of prosperity in the Late Cypriot period, due to increased exploitation of its copper mines. There were close commercial relations not only with the Levant coast, as before, but also with Egypt, Crete, and Mycenaean Greece (the latter being close from about 1,400 B.C.).

The Eurasian Invasion

Sometime around 1,200 B.C, the White invaders from Central Asia, who had three hundred years earlier, conquered the Black civilizations in Eastern Europe, invaded the Aegean area. The cause of this massive migration south and west is completely unknown.

These people of the Eurasian plains were originally nomadic hunter-gathers. The horse had been domesticated by them, and was their main mode of transportation. They did not yet know writing, so we do not know what their previous history was. In the Indus Valley they will be known as the Arians, in Elam they will be known as the Parni, the Parthians, the Scythians and also the Arians. In China they will be known as the Zhou. In Anatolia they will be known as the Dorian’s, Ionians and the Turks. And in mainland Europe, they will be known as the Hellenes, Dorian’s, Ionians, Latin’s, Slavs, Germans, as well as many other sub-groups with other names.

As mentioned above, the earliest White Invaders had spent about three hundred years in Eastern Europe, mixing with the indigenous Blacks there. So there is a possibility that these people were already a “mixed-race” people when they arrived in the Aegean area. Relief’s from the Persian capital of Persepolis show them to be curly haired people, suggesting that they were mixed-race, but that may have happened in Europe during the intervening four hundred years, (the Persians depicted White people with completely straight hair).

But the Persian reliefs do bring into question the thousands upon thousands of Greek busts from the Classical period - all of the most perfect looking, pure White people. But these busts, though being of the same person and at the same age, look nothing alike - busts of Alexander and Cleopatra come immediately to mind. It seems as though the later artists were more interested in portraying the pure White nature of the ancient Hellenes - and welcome to it; rather than the true appearance of the subject person. One can only wonder what happened to these perfect creatures, as they only exist today - with great assistance, on Television and in the movies.

Of course the reality is that all of the Mediterranean countries, both North and South, in post White invasion times, developed populations that were to some extent "mixed-race". But the millions upon millions of additional Whites, (Slavs, Germans, Turks, etc.) who poured into Europe in the current era (circa 200 A.D. onward), proved too much for the indigenous Blacks of Europe to maintain any racial identity.

As a consequence, the modern nation that we call Greece, is such a conglomeration of different ethnicity, that it would be impossible to identify any one group as being uniquely Hellene. Thus the government refuses to census by ethnicity, thus grouping the all into one. But accommodation was afforded to the ancient "first White inhabitants" when in 1829, Greece gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire, and took the name "The Hellenic Republic". The origin of the name "Greece" is unknown, it may have been taken from the original inhabitants of the country, the Pelasgians.

By 1200 B.C, the invaders had destroyed many of the Mycenaean strongholds. And the end of Mycenaean civilization came at about 1100 B.C. Soon the presence of these newcomers had caused enough upheaval in the Mediterranean Islands and Southern Europe, so as to cause the original African inhabitants to band together and leave. Though the precise circumstances are unknown, it can be surmised that as more and more of these newcomers moved into the area, their need for more land and resources grew. The natural result of this competition for land and resources would be conflicts and wars.

The Sea People

As a consequence of these wars, there was a general collapse of the indigenous economies, and their trade. This general collapse prompted some members, of seemingly all of the countries, to band together and head East and South, perhaps to re-populate their former homelands. This confederation of the people of the Mediterranean countries became known as "The Sea People". Among this group called "The Sea People" were the following.

The Peleset and Tjeker (Minoans) of Crete, they would later be known as the “Philistines” after they had settled in Southern Canaan. Over time, this area became known by a form of their name “Palestine”. The Lukka who may have come from the Lycian region of Anatolia, The Ekwesh and Denen seem to be identified with the original (Black) Greeks, The Shardana (Sherden) who may be associated with Sardinia, The Teresh (Tursha or Tyrshenoi), the Tyrrhenians - the Greek name for the Etruscans, and The Shekelesh (Sicilians?). The fate of those that stayed behind, would of course be absorption. Unfortunately for the Sea People, their first choice for a new homeland was Egypt. Pharaoh Rameses III easily defeated them, but allowed the Cretans to settle in Canaan. Click Here for an account of the Sea People in Egypt: And Pictures of the Sea People. <<CLICK>>

Cyprus

About 1100 B.C, the Mycenaean Greeks, refugees from their homeland, settled in Cyprus. They introduced their skills and produced many luxury articles in a mixed Mycenaean-Cypriot style. Cyprus initially escaped the invasions that finally destroyed Mycenaean and Minoan culture, but its own culture did not last much longer. By about 1050 B.C, the White invaders reached Cyprus too, and it’s culture ceased to exist.

The Cyclades Islands

On Melos island, the most southwesterly of the major islands of the Cyclades Islands. The great city of Phylakopi was destroyed in about 1100 B.C, by Dorian invaders.

Thera

Santorini, also known as Thera (or Thira) is a volcanic island located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name. It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands.

The island is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history: the Minoan eruption (sometimes called the Thera eruption), which occurred some 3,600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization. The eruption left a large caldera surrounded by volcanic ash deposits hundreds of feet deep and may have led indirectly to the collapse of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, 110 km (68 mi) to the south, through the creation of a gigantic tsunami. This theory is not, however, supported by chronology, in that the collapse of the Minoan civilization did not occur concurrently with the date of the Tsunami.

Akrotiri is the name of an excavation site on Thera. It was buried by the widespread Theran eruption in the middle of the second millennium B.C. (during the Late Minoan IA period); as a result, like the Roman ruins of Pompeii after it, it is remarkably well-preserved. Frescoes, pottery, furniture, advanced drainage systems and three-story buildings have been discovered at the site, whose excavation was started in 1967 by Spyridon Marinatos.

Note on the coloration of Minoan females. The depicted females are NOT Caucasian or White! Minoan artists ALWAYS depicted females in light color. Egyptians also SOMETIMES depicted females in light color. Whether this convention was to clearly distinguish females from males, or perhaps because of some religious significance is unknown. Because this is a contentious item: As a matter of Common Sense Logic - How could there possibly be a "REAL" society, made up "Exclusively" of Black men and White-White women only? Since we know that the Minoan's were indeed, Real people, that is an impossibility. That said, of course it was for the sake of argument. The historical fact is that Whites did not reach Greece and Southern Europe, from their homelands in Central Asia, until about 1,200 B.C. Therefore there were no White women present in Crete, to be painted by the Minoan's.     But further, we also know the White Mans propensity for making Black people appear to be White, and for creating fake artifacts. It is obvious from the paintings, that the Minoan's were NOT skilled painters. Thus their figures appear as caricature: Note pictures above, Compare them with the pictures below: which appear to have been done by modern, and very skilled artists. Also from the picture above: it is clear that the Minoan's did NOT paint the females WHITE, but rather, a yellow or beige, but once the White Man gets his hands on them, they suddenly become White!

The Ayia Triada Sarcophagus

Hagia Triada is in south central Crete, situated at the western end of the Mesara Plain. The site was not one of the "palaces" of Minoan Crete, but an upscale town, and possibly a royal villa. After the catastrophe of 1450 B.C, the town was rebuilt and remained inhabited until the 2nd century B.C. Later, a Roman period villa was built at the site.

Hagia Triada and nearby Phaistos, were excavated from 1900 to 1908 by a group from Italian Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene. They unearthed a sarcophagus (the Ayia Triada Sarcophagus)painted with illuminating scenes from Cretan life (now at the Archaeological Museum in Iraklion). The sarcophagus was used for the burial of a prince during the period of the Mycenaean occupation (1400 B.C).The main scene is a bull sacrifice and shows all the stages of the sacred ceremony. On it appear a large number of religious symbols, a male figure playing a flute and a man playing a seven-string lyre. This is the oldest picture of the lyre known in classical Greece.

The site includes a town and a miniature "palace", an ancient drainage system servicing both, and Early Minoan tholos tombs. The settlement was in use, in various forms, from Early Minoan I until the fires of Late Minoan IB. Hagia Triada has yielded more Linear A tablets than any other Minoan archaeological site. Other famous finds include the Chieftain's Cup, the Boxer Vase, and the Harvest Vase.