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Through art Minoans expressed their religion and beliefs. What they painted, or who they sculpted in some way was relatable to their everyday life and culture. They would dedicate their sculptures to the gods, like the Snake Goddess or the Earth Goddess, and when they sculpted the gods or their kings they would position their arms in a particular way to represent and important aspect in the Minoan culture or they state that the person they were sculpting was in. The Minoans pottery was even dedicated to the gods; they had a style of pottery called Kamamres Ware. Kamamres Ware was a cave in Mount Ida where pottery like the Minoans made was found, this was also known as the place where the god Zeus was born. You could tell from their sculptures and pottery gods were a very important aspect in their life. They would use designs like fish, lilies, and birds too; but they also developed a style called the “palace style”. The palace style was known for its monochromatic coloring and geometric shapes; they created many other styles and this would go to show that they were broadly educated in art. They painted as well and their paintings resembled the same things; they painted birds and flowers like in pottery but they also painted swimming dolphins, richly dressed court ladies, and men carrying vases. What was the same in all Minoan paintings thought was that the men were almost always painted red; the red color wasn’t symbolic of anything it was to represent the powder that the Minoan men would put on them for ceremonial purposes; it was called rouge. The paintings Minoans created were known as frescoes; they told us a lot about their culture and decorated many homes. You always hear that cavemen did wall paintings like many other culture groups who came before the Minoans, but the Minoans created a new way of painting and it was called a “true” and “wet” painting method. The Minoans took pride in their art but unfortunately many of it is not around today, though of what we do find we are able to identify the Minoan people and their way of life.
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 * __Minoan Art__**

The battle of marathon taking place in 490 b.c. was a victourious moment in Greek history. If Greece had not won this battle they may have never formed their culture and achieved all the accomplishments they did; they would have mostly likley been under the rule of the Persians. The battle of marathon was a targeted punishment for the Greeks from the Persians. The Persians unleashed an armada of 600 ships and 20,000 infantry and calvary on the Greeks. From this battle the Persians were hoping to crush and punish the Greeks due to thier help of their "cousins" the Ionians who rebelled against the Persian Rule. The Persians were losing there enforceful reputation that they had built up, you could say this because of thier lack of control of the Ionians and thier huge loss to the Greeks which they were thought to have win because of thier higher numbered support and military strength. Though ther was great victory for the Greeks that day, a tradition and so called legacy came to us in present time as well. A man named Pheidippides was said to have run from Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory shouting Nenikekamen meaning "WE ARE VICTOURIOUS!!!" He was said to have ran 25 miles, and this later became a major event for the Olympics. Greece left behind for us a remarkable part in history.
 * __THE BATTLE OF MARATHON__**

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__**PRIMARY SOURCE**__ [|**http://www.students.sbc.edu/drahman08/paper.html**] **Snake Goddess From Knossos Greece 1600 BCE**

This statue was represented as "Mother Goddess" which proved that Minoan society was maternly based and women were never shown as a undomestic role. The Snake Goddess also represents a aspect of the everyday life Minioan society, because she is wearing typical apparrall for a Minioan woman. The women apparrel consisted tight bodice, and long layered skirts reaching over thier feet. The arm positioning has to do a lot for all statues, arm postioning has to do with what state they may be in or, to represent the important aspect of the Minoian culture.

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/economy/classical.htm__** Greece traded by boats, they had expanded on to coast land which made easy access to trading by boat.They had created a stable trading network, and they had two products that were the basis of thier trade, and they were olive oil http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/food/oil.htm and wine http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/food/wine.htm. Trading in Greece created a community; and spread culture. Trading created a community because when you didn't have eggs you would go to your neighbor and have to trade, you weren't able to go to the grocery store, you would actually have to go and talk to your negihbor. Trading also spread culture because Greeks would trade with other smaller city states and spread thier culture in other areas. Because of trade in Greece thier city was a better and more humbling atmosphere; by sharing and having to know your neighbors you created a reliable place to live. Here today some people are to busy to notice thier neighbors and some people don't even care, but in Greece it was a slight necessity to survival.
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