ocr: much as their modern counterparts on Crete do. As a result, a village's defined territory may have been limited by the distance a farmer could travel each day to the fields and back on foot. In addition to the geo- graphic definition, the agricultural settlements were defined socially by customary ways of living. Over the period from about 2200 to about 1900 B.C., some prepalatial centers grew in size and importance. One aspect of the increase in importance is that some communities appear to have commanded larger territories than others. Each of the larger territories, or provinces, may have 1 ...
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