Thucydides tells us Minos was the most ancient man known to build a navy. He reigned over Crete and the islands of the Aegean Sea three generations before the Trojan War. He lived at Knossos for periods of nine years, where he received instruction from Zeus in the legislation which he gave to the island.
The greatest effect of the European intrusion into the Americas was to increase the Indian and mestizo population through intermarriage with the whites. The primary cause of the massive population decline among native Americans after the European arrival was not warfare but disease.