Early GreeceFontana, 1980 - 319 síður Within the space of three centuries leading up to the great Persian invasion of 480 B.C., Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt -- a culture whose achievements in the fields of art, science, philosophy and politics were to establish the canons of the Western world. The author places this remarkable development in the context of Mediterranean civilization. He shows how contact with the East acted as a catalyst to transform art and religion, analyzes the invention of the alphabet and the conceptual changes it brought, describes the expansion of Greece in trade and colonization and investigates the relationship between military technology and political progress in the overthrow of aristocratic governments. |
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... Assyrians , who reached the Mediter- ranean coast in the second half of the eighth century . The Assyrians also used ... Assyria and Greece . But archaeological evidence suggests that for both hel- met and shield the crucial development ...
... Assyrians , who reached the Mediter- ranean coast in the second half of the eighth century . The Assyrians also used ... Assyria and Greece . But archaeological evidence suggests that for both hel- met and shield the crucial development ...
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... Assyria THE DARK AGE 1250-1150 Breakdown of settled conditions in eastern Mediter- ranean 1220 Destruction of Troy VIIa 1200 Destruction of Mycenean centres in Greece Overthrow of Hittite Empire Repulse of Peoples of the Sea from Egypt ...
... Assyria THE DARK AGE 1250-1150 Breakdown of settled conditions in eastern Mediter- ranean 1220 Destruction of Troy VIIa 1200 Destruction of Mycenean centres in Greece Overthrow of Hittite Empire Repulse of Peoples of the Sea from Egypt ...
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... Assyrian Empire 734-680 Lelantine War 730-10 Spartan conquest of Messenia * 735 Foundation of first Sicilian colony : Naxos * 734 Foundation of Corcyra and Syracuse 720 Sargon of Assyria conquers Cilicia and Syria * 728-700 Catana ...
... Assyrian Empire 734-680 Lelantine War 730-10 Spartan conquest of Messenia * 735 Foundation of first Sicilian colony : Naxos * 734 Foundation of Corcyra and Syracuse 720 Sargon of Assyria conquers Cilicia and Syria * 728-700 Catana ...
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