The flourishing of the old middle Minoan palace was the heyday of the island. At this time, the Cretan culture stands out against the other cultures in the Aegean and the Cyclads and develops into one of the high eastern Mediterranean cultures. Around 1700 BC, the Greeks who had been leaving peacefully for many years in the mainland of Minor Asia had to resist the attacks of tribes of riders from the northwest. They had invented the carriages and this set them in a better position in the fights with the Greek. These tribes reached also the Middle East and Egypt destroying a great part of it.
    But already quite after, around 1600 BC in the lately Minoan time the Cretans started to rebuild their palaces and even more, they build Knossos, Phaistos, Tylissos, Gournia and Hagia Triada more beautiful and magnificent, with more elegance and developed architecture. During this time were the most building activities on Crete throughout stimulus and develop of art this time is also said as the golden ages.