CLAB06H3 Lecture Notes - Centrality
17 Mar 2014
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Its aim is to organize and understand past events and look at how societies mind progressed from point a to b. Centrality of: spatio - temporal context: where and at time are we studying. 2: secondary sources: commentary on raw materials by scholars - books - bring new life regarding ancient history primary sources: these are raw materials. Traditional argument: scholars believe that the traditional conception of the mediterranean world was homogeneous/set-part. Climate is the same, hot and dry summers and cold. Distinctive vegetation such as olive, grape vine. Water ways were seen as a broader. Thoughts: on a local level there is a lot of diversity and what scholars call microecology it is not proper to say it is a proper and enclosed world lots of different cultures, dialect. Some aspects of history is well documented. Idea that the origins of the western world is associated to the greek/roman world.
