The Minoan Civilization is the one that developed on Crete Island, the largest in the Aegean Sea, between the twentieth and fifteenth centuries BC. That is, it developed during the period known as the Bronze Age and marks the beginning of human grouping with mastery of metals and the development of the earliest civilizations of what we know today by Europe.
Dorian and Macedonian came much later and Trojan was physically not located in Greece. Minoan is the oldest one and is famous for Knossos and other Crete related things as well as the stories of king Minos and the Minotaur.
Wealthy families had their own private galleries, and they financed artists. And because they financed the artists, the artists would always include them in the painting somewhere.
"They resulted in military victory over Islamic society" was technically not one of the ways in which the Crusades benefited European society, since this conquest had no major positive repercussions.
