<span>Besides timber Crete exported food, cypress wood, wine, currants, olive oil, wool, cloth, herbs, and purple dye. Its imports consisted of precious stones, copper (most likely from Cyprus), ivory, silver, gold, and other raw material. They also imported tin that was used in the production of bronze alloys. Interestingly, the nearest known tin mines appear as far as Spain, Britain, central Europe, and Iran. Besides raw materials, the Minoans also adopted from the surrounding cultures artistic ideas and techniques as evident in Egypt's influence on the Minoan wall frescoes, and on goldsmithing production knowledge imported by Syria.</span>
A, The trial of Peter Zenger is widely credited with being the first example of American <u>freedom of press</u>, even though the American nation did not yet exist.
The reason why the Virginia Colony claim both land of each
sides in the Bay of Chesapeake, is because of Charters of which he had
determined the boundaries of Virginia and in the same time, their king during
their period had granted it, therefore, establishing the claim.
