Minoan
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of or relating to the civilization that developed in Crete from the neolithic period to the Bronze Age (about 3000-1050 BCE). Of or relating to the writing systems (Linear A and Linear B) used in Crete and later in mainland Greece. Of or relating to the ancient language of the Minoans which died out by the beginning of the 1st millenium BCE.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A Cretan who belonged to the Minoan civilization.
Part of speech: proper noun
Definition: the language written in Linear A
Civilization
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.Human society, particularly civil society.The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.The state or quality of being civilized.The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
Part of speech: proper noun
Definition: Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
Example sentence: Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.