Select the answer that best traces how the Minoan and Etruscan civilizations led to the foundation of later classical civilization in those areas.

A. The Minoans and Etruscans conquered wide tracts of territory and later turned those areas over to the Greeks and Romans.
B. The Minoans and Etruscans established and revitalized cities and set in place certain cultural characteristics that classical civilization would later adopt
C. The Minoans and Etruscans destroyed their cities in order to force the Greeks and Romans to build entirely new cities
D. The Minoans and Etruscans deliberately with Greeks and Romans to pass down their knowledge and help them establish similar cities of their own

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B. The Minoans and Etruscans established and revitalized cities and set in place certain cultural characteristics that classical civilization would later adopt.