ANTH 3020 Chapter : CLASSICAL NOTES TWO.doc
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Ancient greece: early greece and the bronze age: pgs. The most cultural hero of the ancient greeks was odysseus (odyssey) Like odysseus, greeks were drawn to different shores. Ventured over seas to foreign lands to seek their fortunes as traders, colonizers, and mercenary soldiers. Limited resources forced them to look outward . Were within easy reach of the mediterranean shores of africa, asia, and europe. Plato likened the hundreds of greek cities surrounding the mediterranean and black seas as frogs around a pond . Humans have lived in greece for at least 40,000 yrs. since the middle paleolithic (old. This inhabitants lived mainly by hunting and some gathering of wild plants, using finely crafted tools. After the ice age, the climate of greece warmed considerably; the landscape and its plant and animals evolved into their present forms. Early in the neolithic (new stone) age, the inhabitants began to cultivate domesticated plants, use domesticated animals, and weave cloth on a loom.
