Quote Originally Posted by vartan View Post
Isn't it about time you got some modding experience? Is that a good book? And that's cool man. How many people did the volcano kill?
The book is amazing, in my opinion, it dosen't tells any details precisly, because it is focused of the humanity's history, (of corse, from a scientific evolutionary point of view at the beginning) starting from about 4 millions years ago until modern time. the work is impressive (about 2500 pages). It relates the history of the different civilisation that existed in the world. for Minoans, the volcano didn't killed EVERYONE but mostly destroyed the economy, making the elands infertile... it is an interesting fact that the volcano eruption and the foreign invasion occured at about the same period. The invader tried to rebuild what have been destroyed, they even renovated Knossos and lived in it for a time, but never were they able to shine as much as the monians. During that preriod, though, trade with the mainland greece flourished, (tough before, the Minoans were known to trade with mainland greece for exportation, lybia for timber, asia minor and egypt for jewlry, and more that I can't remember by heart at the moment :) ) The comming of the invador was marked by a serious draw back in civilisation and technologic acheivment (they never built monument worthy of mentioning, but were mostly living off what the minoans accomplished)... they stayed for a couple of century (between 2 and 3, if I remember well) and vanished, as their population dwindled (infertility of the soil?), monument of the minoans were left to rott in the sun and the civilisation in the agean (of an advenced kind, I mean) dissapeared until the flourishing of the Mycean (sorry of the orthograph)...

Well, and to comeback to your principal question... It wasn't not said how many people were killed during the eruption, but that they were weakened enough to offer no real resistance to the invaders (as no sing of massive destruction were shown in archeologic discoveries, rather some decisive battles, massive killing, the skeletons being discovered in the same position they felt when killed, meaning the invaders proceed to a massive "cleaning" and went to live in the great centers of the island, mostly Knossos, and another city wich I forgot the name...)