From 3000 to 1200 B.C., many cultures flourished in the Aegean, including this one, named for a king, on Crete
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Early (3000-2100 BC), a Middle (2100-1500 BC), and a Late Minoan period... [DOC] [TLE] Ancient Greece [PAR] From the sixth century B.C., when Greeks settled over an expanse from the ... by 
Greeks, so the Greek national identity transcended any one state.