CLAA06H3 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
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This language was due to actual contact: the cities were fighting he made them all work to together in his empire, akkadian language, a lot of the text ends up being brought down to us is b/c the monks kept on copying the text, although the greek stories were separated by time other later in time could still read about them b/c they were written down, lots of text left from mesopotamian time on clay pots. The mycenaeans: advanced civilization, developed craft technique, very strong structures, akkmemnon was the king of the mycenaeans, they are good tradesmen they travelled through the mediterranean sea, as they travel they would write things down. In 1200bc all of this changes: destruction, all of these powers were wiped out but no one knows why, all of the empires came down around the same time, canaanites/ phoenicians/ israelites, best known traders, they have the best known stories that come from the bible.
