HIST 205 Lecture 2: Lec 002 Jan 10th HIST 205
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Mediterranean: the mediterranean to the ancients, was the center of the world and the entirety of the world, the class reproduces the thought patterns of the ancient world. The legacy of greece and rome: we can trace many nationalistic movements back to the desire to associate or distance themselves from the roman empire of the past (germans during the. Mycenaean bronze age: overview: the bronze age. 3: homer"s interpretations, homer wrote about the end of the trojan war and the return of. Odysseus to ithaca: however, homer (if he truly was a single man) wrote these epics around the 8th century bce, almost 500 years after the events of. The production of bronze using these two metals indicates a degree of trade and connectivity between the western world: with the increase in social hierarchies, governments begin to form. The majority of the population remains agricultural, but there emerges a class of priests, artisans, nobility, etc. that controls the resources.