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A map shows the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding land, with arrows indicating trade routes across the region. The Mediterranean Sea is labeled, as are Spain, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, and Africa. A Key titled Trade Routes shows a solid line labeled Imports and a dashed line labeled Exports. The Key also includes a dot labeled Greek city-state. A long dashed line indicating an export trade route begins from a Greek city-state on the western end of Crete. It continues westward across the Mediterranean Sea and passes below Italy, which shows a cluster of Greek city-states in southern Italy and also Sicily, including Syracuse. This export route passes below Corsica and Sardinia on the way to Spain, where it splits and heads towards two unlabeled Greek city-states on the eastern coast. Four other dashed-line export routes leave Crete: one heads north to the heel area of Italy; another leaves Crete from the Greek city-state of Knossos and heads north to a group of city-states in Greece in the area of Corinth and Athens; another heads south to a city-state at the end of the Nile River, just north of the city of Memphis; the fourth heads eastward from a city-state on the eastern end of Crete to the labeled city of Tyre and also Byblos on the eastern coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. Three other Greek city-states are indicated on the African northern coast in the area of present-day Libya. A solid-arrow import route begins in a cluster of city-states on Cyprus, heading westward to an island off Asia Minor and turns south to eastern Crete. More unlabeled Greek city-states are scattered along the southern and western coasts of Asia Minor. Another import route begins at the end of the Nile River and heads north to eastern Crete. A scale shows 400 miles and 400 kilometers.

Use the map to determine which of the following statements about Minoan trading ports is true.(1 point)
Responses

Most Greek city-states and colonies were not former Minoan trading ports.
Most Greek city-states and colonies were not former Minoan trading ports.

The Minoans had more trading ports in the north.
The Minoans had more trading ports in the north.

Most Greek city-states and colonies were former Minoan trading ports.
Most Greek city-states and colonies were former Minoan trading ports.

Most of the former Minoan trading ports are located in the west.
Most of the former Minoan trading ports are located in the west.
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Answer 1

Based on the description of the map, the statement that is most likely true is:

Most Greek city-states and colonies were not former Minoan trading ports.

The information provided indicates various trade routes originating from Crete and connecting to other city-states and regions, suggesting that while Crete was a significant trading hub, the majority of Greek city-states located elsewhere, particularly along the western and northern coasts, were not directly associated with Minoan trade. The presence of many Greek city-states outside of Crete implies that not all of them were former Minoan ports.

The other statements regarding Minoan ports being predominantly in the north, in the west, or that most Greek city-states were former Minoan trading ports are less supported by the map details provided.