CLST 110- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 154 pages long!)
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Office: buch c330 m/w 2-3 pm, th: 11-12 arden. williams@ubc. ca. Golden age phrase goes back to 18th cent. Admired the culture, considered this particular period better than the prior or after. Would we still call it a golden age with our different values. Herodotus was the father of history, writer of the first prose narrative history in greek on the invasion of mainland greece by the persians what we will cover. 2100 is approx date when greek speaking people enter greece, a different group that suddenly appear. 30 bc is when the romans conquered the last greek independent colony. When people start practicing argiculture, settle villages, build walls and roads, thinks about utilities. Acceleration of prosperity and population, using braze for tools, greek speakers arrive, reaches cataclysmic end and civilization collapses. Disapears from historical record, the people lost technology and labour to build the big stone palace complexes from the bronze age.
