So he referred to that civilization as the Minoan civilization.

因此他称此文明为米诺斯文明

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Well, the way we can reason things out from the evidence we have suggests that Greek-speaking peoples came down into the area around the Aegean Sea, perhaps around 2000 B.C., about a thousand years later than the emergence of the Minoan civilization at Crete.

根据现在我们掌握的资料推断,讲希腊语的人群主要集中在爱琴海附近,大概在公元前两千年左右,在米诺斯文明出现在克里特岛大概一千年后

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When we use the word Minoan we mean the civilization whose home is Crete.

当我们用"米诺斯"这个词语时,就是指出自于克里特的文明

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