CLA230H1 Chapter 4: The Greeks, Morris and Powell
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33k - 12k-11k bc, end of the last ice age. Greece was mostly warmer than the rest of europe. Earliest evidence of ppl in greece is 200k years ago small cave pop, in bands of 15-25 ppl; nomadic, and plants didn"t grow in cold winter, followed animals into the mountains in summer, into plains in winter. Only a few 1000 ppl in all of greece. 10kbc, temps like modern ones fertile crescent in the near east. Iraq and turkey lots of rainfall and wild grained evolve support more ppl with the land with grain. 9kbc in fertile crescent area selective breeding of wild grasses to produce better strains [first. Similar languages: english, latin, greek, sanskrit, irish, gothic, old persian; 1786, william jones: Pockets of unrelated speech: single group in prehistory spoke a proto-indo-euro lang, and displaced other ppls with a different lang. Lang of first grk farmers little resemble lang of plato 6k later.
