CLAS 1000 Lecture : Week 1-7

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Central location that protrudes into the aegean sea. They borrowed and absorbed influences; cultural technological from their neighbours. Proximity to italy influence spread to the roman world. Romantics argue the landscape influences them as a culture; Traditionally they identified themselves within the polis in which they reside in. Sense of hellenic culture but largely just around the common religion. Isolation played to their success but made them incapable of resisting other cultures; i. e. the romans. Dates to the end of the last ice age 10 000 years ago. Neo-lithic <3000bc: use of stone tools etc, in 3000 bc, more advanced cultures such as mesopotamia, natural occurring copper, mix with tin to make bronze. Propelled greeks into a more technologically advanced society: greeks spread the culture through killing others surrounding them. In the 19th century, european explorers set about looking for the stuff they read about in homer and myths: arthur evans travelled in crete.

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