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On Crete, in the eastern Mediterranean, an elaborate civilization (termed "Minoan" by modern excavators) is centered at Knossos, Phaistos, and Mallia, where palaces are built around open rectangular courts and without defensive walls. The Minoans develop a fast potter's wheel and a hieroglyphic writing system (which modern scholars have not yet deciphered).
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