ocr: mansions spread through the provincial hinterland. They may have stemmed from the ruling family or from independent families. A prominent role was also played by priests and priestesses. In addition there must have been a group who organized and carried out the critical overseas trade. As noted above, the traders may have constituted a semiautonomous merchant class within the society. At all levels of Minoan society there must also have been craftsmen, ranging from palace dependents to those who maintained workshops in the towns. In an agricultural society such as that of Bronze Age Crete, how ...
(.png)
