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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... culture , which had lasted from about 1600 BC until the destruction of the main palace sites around 1200 . The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in Crete from 1900 onwards revealed a still earlier non - Greek palace culture ...
... culture , which had lasted from about 1600 BC until the destruction of the main palace sites around 1200 . The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in Crete from 1900 onwards revealed a still earlier non - Greek palace culture ...
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... culture was definitely non - Greek , the status of Mycenean culture was uncertain , until in 1952 a young English architect , Michael Ventris , deciphered the tablets from the destruction levels at Pylos on the mainland and at Mycenean ...
... culture was definitely non - Greek , the status of Mycenean culture was uncertain , until in 1952 a young English architect , Michael Ventris , deciphered the tablets from the destruction levels at Pylos on the mainland and at Mycenean ...
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... culture : the palaces were destroyed either by passing raiders , like the later Viking harassment of Celtic and Anglo - Saxon culture , or by local uprisings of a subject people . But despite the existence of some cultural continuity ...
... culture : the palaces were destroyed either by passing raiders , like the later Viking harassment of Celtic and Anglo - Saxon culture , or by local uprisings of a subject people . But despite the existence of some cultural continuity ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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