CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Croesus, Onomatopoeia, Xenophobia
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Asia: however there were greeks living in asia minor (turkey, 2. Language: barbarian comes from barbaroi (an onomatopoeia meaning that all the non greek"s speech sounded like bar-bar- bar-bar-bar: 3. Persian culture (letters, some art, maybe even the concept of the polis!: greeks didn"t really racialize foreigners; such as physical appearance, greeks did define race: genos , they thought ethiopia was closer to the sun, which is why. Ethiopians were so dark (fucking awesome) it didn"t matter if you were black or white, but it mattered who you served, how you thought etc: the watershed moment for the divide between persians and. Greeks was the persian wars (490-480 bce: before the war the greeks had contact with asia, the trojans were the ancestors of the persians, however where the trojans were viewed as human and not anti- Greek lawmaker: croesus himself was conquered by the persians (attacked by.
