Read the text answer the questions 28 – 30
For over 500 years, beginning in 2000 BC,
there flourished on the island of Crete in the
eastern Mediterranean one of the most splendid
civilizations of the ancient world: the Minoan
civilization. Its capital was Knossos, a city
dominated by the palace of Minos the king. All
over the eastern half of Crete there were
cities, each with its own palace, and the
population of the island must have been at least
a quarter of a million. Minoan power and
influence, however, were not confined to Crete
alone, for the Minoans, by means of their ships,
ruled the surrounding seas, set up colonies on
the Aegean islands to the north, and established
trade links with other peoples on the main lands
of Anatolia and Greece as well as with the
Pharaohs of Egypt. Minoan objects and cultural
influence have been found as far away as the
ruins of Mycenae in Greece. But suddenly,
sometime between 1500 and 1400 BC, the
Minoan civilization came to an end, and was
forgotten by the world for over 3,000 years. In
the early years of this century, however,
archaeologists discovered the remains of the
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