HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Ecumene, Proxeny, Roman Citizenship

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The romans added the notion of civilisation to it. civilisation. Empires first association: rome to understand rome, you need to look at the bigger picture as well (e. g. developments in the levant etc. ) 2: polybius: before the punic war, the different developments were dispersed, but since that history has begun to develop together and different regions in the. Innovations evolved in the colonies: the colonies had more in common with their mother cities than with their surrounding hinterland, phoenicia and greeks were not countries, but those regions consisted of independent city states (gr. 3: the different cities sent out traders who established a large trade network and started to built up settlements and colonies at the respective ends of trade routes, e. g. Carthage developed like that: phoenician colonisation, from tyre and sidon to spain, carthage and sicily, brought alphabet and craft production (ivory and glass, greek colonisation, due to overpopulation at home.