According to most historians and archaeologists, the Minoan civilization dates back to the period between 1700 and 1425 BC. As some say, the Minoan civilization dates back to Mark Carthwright, “Minoan civilization flourished in the Middle Bronze Age on the Mediterranean island of Crete from ca. 2000 BC until ca. 1500 BC” and others say as the editors of the encyclopedia Britannica say. The Minoan civilization [the] Cretan Bronze Age civilization that flourished from about 3000 BC to about 1,100 BC. Of the editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica who state that the Minoan civilization goes along with Sir Arthur Evans as "he discovered the ruins of a unique and distinctive culture dating back to about 3000-1000 BC [to] call this culture the Minoan civilization" ( Wallenfels and Sasson 1). The Minoan civilization's outlook on life was different from that of other civilizations of this period in the Mediterranean world. To begin with, the people of the Minoan civilization were a non-violent people, as Mathisen states in his book “Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations” that “the Minoans appear to have a non-violent mentality”.