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The general intellectual outlook which had appeared in the eleventh century was now consolidated to a significant degree.

Much which was in embryo in 1000 had become reasonably well developed by 800.

In this process the Minoan-Mycenaean inheritance had been transmuted or finally rejected ; ;

the Aegean world which had existed before 1000 differed from that which rises more clearly in our vision after 800.

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times -- granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside -- are correct ; ;

but all too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took place in the early first millennium.