HIS101H5 Lecture 8: HIS101 Lecture 8.docx
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The mediterranean is important today because we feel we have cultural heritage in the. Much of our cultures descends from greece and rome. Much of our culture, hoewever, doesn"t come from greece and rome. Many things in our culture is based on images and ideas of greece and rome. A journey in academy or not = odyssey. Many deeper levels of though come from mediterranean. A body of water didn"t separate people, it joined them. The ancient world believed people shared a cultural unity. The ancient period of the mediterranean history. Helped connect ancient cultures with one another. First appeared in the levant during bronze age. Part of large group called the canaanites. Never a unified political group: had connections but not solid political unit. Inhabited a small part of land: bordered on one side by mediterranean and. They were very open to other cultural influences: seen in a lot of their surviving art.
