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Crete. c6100BC Knossos civilization. 3500BC Minoan. 1100BC Greek 67BC Rome. 826 Saracen. 960 Byzantine. 1205 Venice. 1669 Ottoman. 1912 Greece. 1941-45 Germany occupies.
Crete, Battle. 1941. First German airborne invasion.
Daedalus. Builder of the Crete labyrinth. Escaped Minos with artificial wings. Icarus.
Edison, Thomas. 1847-1931. US inventor: imp telephone 1877, phonograph 1877, lightbulb 1878, movies, cast concrete 1907. Menlo Park, first industrial research laboratory.
Existentialism. Philosophy. Existence is concrete. Man has choice. Responsibility, freedom. Anti-conformism. Kierkegaard. Sartre. Heidegger.
Greco-Turkish War. 1897. Greece fails to annex Crete. 1920-22. Greece loses Thrace. Exchange of minorities.
Greece. c3000BC Minoan(Crete). c1500BC Achaean. 11C Aeolian, Ionian. c1100 Dorian. 683 Athens monarchy. 404 Sparta. 371 Thebes. 338 Macedonia...Alexander. 197BC Rome...Byzantine. 1453 AD Ottoman. 1829 Independent kingdom. 1912 +Crete. 1924 Republic. 1935 Constitutional Monarchy. 1973 Republic. 1981 EEC. 1994 EU.
Minoans. 3000-1100BC. Cretan civilization. Maritime power. Minos.
Minos. Legendary King of Crete. Kept Minotaur, controlled Aegean islands.
Minotaur. Half-man, half-bull killed by Theseus in the Labyrinth on Crete. Fed tribute of children.
Monier. 1823-1906. French inventor of reinforced concrete, 1867.
Perret, Auguste. 1874-1954. French architect in reinforced concrete. Champs-Élyées Theatre.
Piaget, Jean. 1896-1980. Swiss psychologist. Child development in four stages: sensorimotor, symbolic, concrete, logical.