CLA237H5 Chapter 4: Chapter 4
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Chapter 4- the greek before history, 12000-1200 bc. In last 150 years, human activity raised average temperature on earth. Greece stayed warmer than the rest of europe but at the coldest point, around 18,000 bc, its winters were longer and colder than anything classical greeks had o complain about. The earliest evidence of humans in greece dates back 200,000 years but fully modern humans (homosapiens) entered 35 000 years ago. Edible plants available only in summer so population was constantly moving, following herds of animals that migrated into the mountains in summer and came downt o plains in winter. Major languages of modern europe and important languages in asia are indo-european. Some time in prehistory, one group spoke a proto-indo-european language, a single language that was somehow ancestor to all later indo-european languages and that group migrated across europe and south asia displacing or replacing earlier inhabitants and their languages.
