CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Hisarlik, Minos, Thalassocracy
16 Jul 2013
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Classics/history 1m03 lecture 1 may 6, 2013. Historia , herodotus"s work not only means history but also inquiry and. Main aim of this course is to develop the bigger questions taken from the evidence. 70% mountainous, rugged terrain land is infertile, unable to produce much agriculture therefore, infrastructure suffers, communities are established nearest to water/sea low population, resource scarce. Plato said that greeks were like frogs around a pond : no part of mainland greece is more than 35 miles from the sea. Never once was greece a single, unified political nation, rather, it was made up of local and independent areas. Although they did share common language, customs and religion. Greece was not a nation individual communities existed throughout mainland greece and the. Polis (poleis): identity of citizenship primarily by their polis, independent states, regarded as the home , examples: athenian of athens or corinthian of corinth.
