>>10198629>How did they start dominating the sea trade in the first place?Trade.
If you build ships to trade olive oil for copper which they turned into implements and traded those back, you will then possess a working knowledge of ship building. If you can build a trading vessel, you can build a war ship.
Build enough of those and you can choose to become a Thalassocracy.
You can find many references to this in Greek historical myth and legend.
Pic related is a Minoan Fresco depicting war-ships.
>How did the come to possess such foresight? I don't know. Maybe it was Atlantis.
>Or, so your textbooks say. If you want to call that a Silk Road, then that's certainly a worthy interpretation.
>That map is wrong because it literally buys into the myth that Altantis was located in the Atlantic oceanYes. Well, I was hoping that you could assist me in correcting it.
Firstly, you state that the Minoans were Atlanteans.
This is good because they have recorded cities.
But I have a few questions for you;
1. What other societies were contemporaneous with Atlantis/Minoa?
2. Without the Mediterranean Sea, most of this area would be a very salty desert with salt lakes. What did society look like at that time?
I can offer some insight. First, the Nile (River Styx) would flow north at least to a large salt-lake just south of modern Crete. The area around modern Egypt would actually have resembled the Grand Canyon
https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2019/05/31/the-lost-grand-canyon-of-egypt-part-ii-origins-of-the-nile-river-valley/Society could have centered around the River Styx and the Minoans, far from being sea traders, would have been like the Egyptians.
This is just my head cannon, I am interested in what you think.
Also, when did Atlantis exist?
