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Empire Of Ancient Greece
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Empire Of Ancient Greece
(Great Empires of the Past)
Wendy Christensen, "Empire of Ancient Egypt (Great Empires of the Past)"
Facts on File | Pages: 128 | 2004-11 | ISBN: 0816055580 | 3 MB Facts on File | Pages: 128 | 2004-11 | ISBN: 0816055580 | 3 MB
THE TERM "ANCIENT GREEKS" CAN REFER TO MANY CULTURES
and times in world history. The ancient Greeks include the warriors who
fought in the Trojan War in the 1200s BC and whose mythical stories, re-
told by Homer, are considered the foundation of Western literature. They
also are the sophisticated (from the Greek word sophos, which means ìwis-domî)
Athenians of what is known as Classical Greece, who gave us
democracy in the 400s B.C. and whose architecture and literature remain
an important part of our culture. And they are the Mediterranean peoples
who, in the two centuries before Rome began its rule of the Western and
near Eastern world in the 140s B.C., made ground-breaking contributions
to science and mathematics.
The history of the ancient Greeks spanned many centuries, from
about 1600 B.C. to 146B.C.
As their world was unfolding, their Mediter-ranean neighbors included Egypt,
whose civilization had already beenaround 2,000 years. To the east, in
modern-day Turkey, the Hittites madeup another powerful kingdom that jostled
with Egypt for control overSyria, which lay between them. The nearby Phoenicians
first developed analphabet and advanced the art of shipbuilding. Trade and
exchanges of cul-ture and technology flourished among these Mediterranean kingdoms,
which also came to include the early Greeks.
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