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.
Are there options? If not, I believe you meant to write glib? If I am not mistaken a good definition would be fluent, smooth, easy and unconstrained. Hope this helps!
People began to develop networks of urban settlements when the rise of agriculture and trade allowed people to have surplusfood and economic stability
<span>The
expansion of the Ottoman empire,in particular their capture of
Constantinople in 1453,cut off Europe from traditional overland trade
routes east.This meant these land routes had to bypassed if Europeans
were to get the spices,silk,and other Eastern trade goods they
needed,and the only way to do this was by sea. Hope that helps</span>
