Classical Studies 2500A/B Lecture 1: Unit 1 Lec 1

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2500A/B
• Professor: Beth Greene

Document Summary

Medieval, roman = historical since there are so many texts that we can look at. Not really gonna talk about stone age, gonna talk about neolithic. Neolithic: a lot of phenomena that we will talk about (proto urban, settled community) Stone, chalcolithic, bronze, iron: named from the tools they use, made of those. Bronze (copper+tin) is softer, iron is harder note: iron is in ore, have to extract it, heat it, process involved. This technology moves with people; with trading (it is a gradual transition) Britain is not part of the mediterranean, but culture was gotten from here. *far-east: showing you the roman empire (massive area of imperial control) Gives a sense of all the areas we will be talking about (even in the east end) Year 146, the year than romans conquered both carthage and greece. Historic accounts for us to render what year it actually happened. 509 = kings kicked out of rome.