CLA 30 Lecture 1: CLA 30 Lecture 1 (pt 1)
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C. e or a. d (common era or anno domini) B. c. e or bc (before common era) *150 years before common. 2nd century c. e is between 100 c. e-200 c. e. Greeks mostly live in europe in the country of greece. People who spoke greek were in the area of the aegan sea b middle of 2nd millenium bce. We know this because they left a form of writing called linear b (made of clay, and they write lines on it) Over the next 1000 years greeks spread across the. Alexander the great was a macedonian, not greek. He conquered a huge chunk of the world and brought greek culture to the entire eastern mediterranean. The mediterranean area used greek a their common language because of alexander the great. Ancient greeks excelled in art, philosphy, and science. Ancient greeks left big impact on european culture.
