Question

Why has the Minoan civilization been identified as a melting pot of cultures by archaeologists? A) Archaeologists have found skeletons suggesting that people from Africa, Asia, and Europe formed a unique Cretan culture. B) The trade routes brought different cultures together so often that cultural definitions must have been blurred. C) Archaeologists have been unable to determine a definite culture due to confusion caused by the archaeological evidence found.

Answer 1

The Minoan civilization has been identified as a melting pot of cultures by archaeologists because C. archaelogists have been unable to determine a definite culture due to confusion caused by the archaeological evidence found. They found a lot of different evidence from various cultures in these locations where the Minoan civilization lived, which prevented them from saying which culture they really originate from. Thus their decision was to name the civilization a melting pot given that it wasn't created from only one civilization, but rather a lot of them.