Quick questions on Minoan palaces and Minoan social and political organisation: HSC Ancient History

Minoan Crete was not a single palace ruling an undifferentiated countryside, but a graded regional hierarchy. At the top sat the four major excavated palace complexes, Knossos, Phaistos, Malia and Zakros, each the administrative and religious centre of its own region. Below the palaces, elite country residences such as the villa at Hagia Triada, near Phaistos, held their own Linear A archive and storage facilities, a secondary tier of wealth and administration connected to, but distinct from, the nearest palace. Further down the hierarchy, towns such as Gournia, excavated by Harriet Boyd Hawes between 1901 and 1904, show ordinary streets, houses and workshops clustered around a small courtyard building, without the scale, storage capacity or ritual architecture of a true palace, evidence of everyday Minoan life at a non-elite, non-palatial level.

A response that cannot place the palatial periods (c. 1900-1700 BC, c. 1700-1450 BC) or name at least one modern historian's position will not reach the top band, however fluent the prose.