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1. Minoan towns were unfortified, while the Mycenaeans lived in communities surrounding fortified hilltops, indicating that the Mycenaeans were warlike (and/or beset by enemies) and the Minoans peaceful (and/or free from challenges from enemies).
2.The Mycenaean citadel, built on a scale seemingly designed to intimidate or impress the visitor, and leading from lower reaches to the residence of the ruler at its peak, seems to reflect the hierarchical feudal society it was designed to serve. Mycenae’s citadel walls—20 feet thick and 50 feet high—were built from huge blocks of rough-hewn stone, in a technique called cyclopean masonry because it was believed by later Greeks that only a race of monsters known as the Cyclopes could have managed them. The building occupying the highest point of the citadel may have served as the residence of a ruler. Visitors to the city entered through a massive Lion Gate at the top of a steep path that led from the valley below. The lionesses that stood above the gate’s lintel were 9 feet high. From the gate, a long, stone street wound up the hill to the citadel.
3. Minoan palaces were less rigorously ordered and clearly designed to support the countryside surrounding, rather than simply announce and protect the ruler’s power. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, one of three principal palace sites on Crete, is enormous, covering more than 6 acres, and laid out with a central, open courtyard surrounded by a labyrinth of rooms. The Palace served as an administrative, commercial, and religious center ruled by a king. Leading from the courtyard were corridors, staircases, and passageways that connected living quarters, ritual spaces, baths, and administrative offices, in no discernible order or design. Workshops surrounded the complex, and vast storerooms could easily provide for the needs of both the palace population and the population of the surrounding countryside.
4. The complexity and richness of the architecture in both places reflects the power and prosperity of the cultures.