# Canonical recap data for Minoan Sport Competitions Crete (1700)
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title: Minoan Sport Competitions Crete
subtitle: Frescoes at Minoan palaces depict organized athletic competitions—boxing, acrobatics, and bull-leaping—marking the earliest evidence of formalized sports.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1700-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1700
decade: 1700
country:
name: Greece
slug: greece
summaryShort: The Minoan civilization produced a wide variety of richly decorated Minoan pottery. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they assist archaeologists in assigning relative dates to the strata of their sites. Pots that contained oils and oi
summaryLong: The Minoan civilization produced a wide variety of richly decorated Minoan pottery. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they assist archaeologists in assigning relative dates to the strata of their sites. Pots that contained oils and ointments, exported from 18th century BC Crete, have been found at sites through the Aegean islands and mainland Greece, in Cyprus, along coastal Syria and in Egypt, showing the wide trading contacts of the Minoans.
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heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Minoan pottery"
importance: 72
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_pottery"
  title: Minoan pottery
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- sports
metaDescription: The Minoan civilization produced a wide variety of richly decorated Minoan pottery. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something o
wikidataQid: Q1937490
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  capturedAt: 2026-06-20
  label: Minoan pottery
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_pottery"
