What did Mediterraneans mean by this?

That's exactly my point

Pre steppe blood

Pre steppe

Before steppe admixture

Before steppe blood

that's a big building

Literally incatard tier

Itt: wh*Toids get destroyed

Before steppe admixture

>Colosseum
Vespasian, Titus and Domitian were all blonde,Domitian had blue eyes

Pre Indoeuropean

Pre IE

how did indo-europeans ever manage to impose their language and culture on minoans if they were this advanced

Pre steppe blood

Pre steppe

Before steppe blood

Pre IE

>The Minoans were among the most advanced civilizations on earth at the time, having indoor running hot and cold water, indoor toilets, multi-story houses, public water and sewer systems, and advanced art, architecture, and pottery.

are the orkney islands in the med as well cletus?

"Yo bruv, we've got chariots and weapons and shiet. Tell your lass to put her tatas away and start speaking Greek or else. Nice syllabary you've got there btw"

Minoans already had bronze swords when the Myceneans came

Sure, but compared to the mainland Mycenaeans, they didn't stand a chance. They were traders, not conquerors. According to Evans at least.
Also, Thera had erupted by the point the Mycenaeans took over Crete.

Why didn't they stand a chance if they were so advanced, you'd think that horses and chariots wouldn't help much in that kind of terrain

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece#Koine_era_.28c._1450_BC.E2.80.931250_BC.29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_eruption#Historical_impact

Knossos and Malia were on flat enough terrain

So does that Afghanistani man sleeping in a hut somewhere

>The eruption devastated the nearby Minoan settlement at Akrotiri on Santorini, which was entombed in a layer of pumice.[45] It is believed that the eruption also severely affected the Minoan population on Crete, but the extent of the impact is debated. Early theories proposed that ashfall from Thera on the eastern half of Crete choked off plant life, causing starvation of the local population.[46] However, after more thorough field examinations, the theory has lost credibility, as it has been determined that no more than 5 mm (0.20 in) of ash fell anywhere on Crete.

>impose their language and culture on minoans if they were this advanced

Late Bronze age Collapse, motherfucker, do you even?

That happened before the collapse, you nimrod

Very funny because after Brits mixed with steppe people They stopped building monuments like Stonehenge, Salesbury hill or Maeshowe for two millenia while the pre IE inhabitants of Greece were already building great monuments cebturies before mixing with IE people, your pic is misleading

Isn’t there a theory that the languages spoken by the Minoans, Etruscans and Lemnians were related to the Indo-European languages? Members of the proposed Anatolian-Indo-European language family?

Yes and it's wrong

That's just the initial problem. Then you'd have intense rain and tsunamis. Then you'd have to deal with lower food yields for hundreds of miles about. Then you'd have to deal with the ball scratching fucknut tribes who see a perfectly good opportunity to rape and plunder.

>all the failures in Rome were Nords
>all the failures in Egypt were Black
I am seeing a pattern here

Is it?

Minoans did not have their culture replaced by indo-europeans,(and they are indo-european, so I'm not even sure what that means) they disappeared in the collapse, what remained was colonized by the Myceneans.

Indo-europeans as in "steppe blood" in the thread, arrived circa 3,500-3,000 bc, more than a full millenia before the first palaces. So nomadic "steppe blood" indo-europeans did not replace Minoans, for the good reason that Minoans are their descendants.

>Minoans did not have their culture replaced by indo-europeans

Not replaced, since their Mycenean ruler adopted their culture almost wholesomely, but after Myceneans took over in 1450 bc the only written documents in Greek were written in Linear b and conveyed Greek, which is an Indoeuropean language

>and they are indo-european

Linear A has never been properly translated but the consensus is that they were Pre IE, recent genetic studies confirm this as they had no steppe admixture but only Neolithic Anatolian + some minor Caucasus HG admixture

> they disappeared in the collapse

No, they were under Mycenean rule for quite some time (3 centuries) before the collapse hit them, also they did not disappear completely as in the iron age (4-5 centuries after the collapse) some alphabetic texts conveying Eteocretan, a pre IE native language, were found.

>arrived circa 3,500-3,000 bc, more than a full millenia before the first palaces.

Not in Crete, only in Central Europe from the steppes.

> for the good reason that Minoans are their descendants.

No, they had 0 steppe admixture

>Minoans did not have their culture replaced by indo-europeans

Not replaced, since their Mycenean ruler adopted their culture almost wholesomely, but after Myceneans took over in 1450 bc the only written documents found in Crete after that date were written in Linear b and conveyed Greek, which is an Indoeuropean language, Linear A texts disappeared after that date

>and they are indo-european

Linear A has never been properly translated but the consensus is that they were Pre IE, recent genetic studies confirm this as they had no steppe admixture but only Neolithic Anatolian + some minor Caucasus HG admixture

> they disappeared in the collapse

No, they were under Mycenean rule for quite some time (3 centuries) before the collapse hit them, also they did not disappear completely as in the iron age (4-5 centuries after the collapse) some alphabetic texts conveying Eteocretan, a pre IE native language, were found.

>arrived circa 3,500-3,000 bc, more than a full millenia before the first palaces.

Not in Crete, only in Central Europe from the steppes.

> for the good reason that Minoans are their descendants.

No, they had 0 steppe admixture

Nice protofarms, kid. Mind if I take them?
>chariots behind your formation
Nothin' personal, paleo-European

those monkeys are kinda furry looking, desu