The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organisation of 15 nations, founded in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members, and headquartered since 1965 in Vienna, Austria.
The activity that enabled the spread of Minoan civilization was commerce.
Water transport was far more efficient than land transport, and the Mediterranean sea was a major conduit of trade and of contact between cultures.
Minoan civilization, expanded though the establishment of settlements and commercial outposts such as the ones found in Santorini and Kythera from the mid-third millenium BC until the thirteenth century BC.
English christian humanist is "Thomas More"
The flood made silt near rivers and silt made land extremely fertile for farming.
