As we all know, the Balkans, Danube valley, France, Spain, Ukraine and Italy had a good climate and Agricultural productivity. But these regions didn't see advanced civilizations like the Egyptians, Babylonians or the Indus Valley or China.
Was there any particular reason for this? It would have been very interesting to see highly advanced Native European Civilizations, along with other Bronze Age Civilizations. This would have shaped the history of North Africa and Middle East, also, in a different way. And there might be no nomadic Indo-Iranian migrations into South Asia and the Iran. They might have settled those regions with Agricultural colonies, as an expansion of their Civilization in the Pontic region.
I am also interested in a Baltic Danubian Civilization built by a United Native Northern and Southern European groups.
Probably geographical reasons, favoring the concentration of many people into one place. Still trade routes between Mediterranean and Northern Europe were quite common and trade as well.
https://jarnaes.wordpress.com/1-minoan-crete-linear-a/
The two professors of archaeology, Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas B. Larsson, argue in their book “The Rise of Bronze Age Society”, based on a vast amount of evidence, that the rich and spectacular Early Bronze Age of Denmark and Scandinavia can only be explained in terms of a contact between the Minoan-Mycenaean civilization and Scandinavia. They write (pp. 235-236): “Mycenaean traders settled in western Mediterranean and established direct trading connections with southern Germany, and thus linked up with the network that reached Jutland and the amber producing areas. Recent archaeological discoveries have completely changed our perception of Mycenaean presence in this part of Europe”. And “a genuine Mycenaean find appeared in a Middle Bronze Age fortified settlement in Bavaria: a gold diadem made of gold foil of the type found in the shaft graves at Mycenae, together with some raw amber.(…) Mycenaean and south German and even south Scandinavian chiefs had direct personal contacts. (…) Moreover, it makes it easier to understand how east Mediterranean prestige goods, such as folding stools and flange-hilted swords of Mycenaean inspiration, could be transmitted so directly to southern Scandinavia. But why this region – more than other regions in Europe – adopted a Mycenaean cultural idiom as basis for the new Nordic Bronze Age society remains yet to be explained.” And p. 249: “However, foreign origins were most consciously demonstrated in the formation of the Nordic Bronze Age Culture from 1500 BC onwards, basing itself on a Minoan/Mycenaean template.”The authors also point to the fact that a sign or symbol akin to the Hittite hieroglyph meaning “divine” is among the rock carvings at Fossum in Sweden, associated with images of what could be representations of divinities (p. 342).
Kongsberg could easily be reached from the sea by boats sailing up the Oslo Fjord and Drammen Fjord to Vestfossen. All the way along this route, from Drammen to Vestfossen and Kongsberg, there are big mining areas of other ores, like copper and silver bearing galena (lead), leading on to the Kongsberg mining area.
Minoans, having reached Kongsberg, most likely around 1800 – 1500 BC, at the heyday of Minoan civilization, when silver could be traded for its double weight in gold in Egypt, and leaving a message on a cult place there, would probably have thanked the gods for what ever riches they had come for. The only reason for their coming to Kongsberg would have been the area’s richness in easily accessible native silver.