CLA160H1 Final: Classics Study Notes.docx
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Homers illiad described the legendary, first greek national venture- the trojan war in a poem that took shape as the greeks were beginning to develop a sense of themselves of the people. The root meaning of history comes from herodotus: historia. History then refers to a method, to the investigation of the past. The period before the widespread use of metals, when most tools were made of stone, is called the stone age. It is divided into two main periods, the paleolithic, or old stone age. and the. Neolithic the new stone age , which begins with the invention of agriculture. Neolithic period began as early as 11 thousand years ago in the near east but did not reach other areas of the mediterranean region until much later. No written records about stone age, must rely on artifacts of human skeletons.
