ocr: for those palaces. From these ports Minoan products were carried as far as Delphi on the Greek mainland, Troy, Cyprus, the Levant coast and Egypt. Closer to Crete were regions of much more intense economic and social contact, in particular the Cycladic Islands and the northeastern Peloponnese. Indeed, at some sites in the Aegean there appear to have been communities of Cretans among the local population; such overseas communities were a natural outgrowth of economic and demographic expansion that took place on Crete. The successful, expanding Minoan economy also required a considerable 41 of51 ...
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