HIST 2850 Lecture 1: HIST*2850 Week 1

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2850
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Living in caves an small tribal groups. Egypt, sumer, mesopotamia civilizations well ahead of the greeks. From more advanced civilizations greeks traded and developed (cid:2) (cid:2) knowledge of bronze (cid:2) Tablets written in linear a still deciphered. In this period the greeks develop the city-state (poleis) Culturally linked the their neighbors but violently independent. 2 wars 490 and 480 bc the greco persian wars. Brief period between persian wars is classical period. Ending with death of alexander in 323 bc. Greeks achieve a great deal in a short time. The death of cleopatra (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) Great (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) Begins with greco persian wars and ends with death of alexander the. Athenians developed tragedy, philosophy in 5th and 4th century. Caves persist in greek myth as a memory of early civilization. New technology and new way of living involving agriculture.