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Mediterranean civilizations: Greece - Coggle Diagram
Mediterranean civilizations: Greece
CIVILIZATIONS BEFORE GREECE AND ROME
HITTITE: It was the third power in the Middle East, in Anatolia Peninsula, between XVII to XII century b.c.
PHOENICIAN: It was a thalassocracy, good navigation system, first consonant alphabet, in Lebanon coast, from XII century b.c.
CARTHAGINIAN: It was a Phoenician city that gained independence substituting the Phoenicians, Centralized sewage system, Defeated by Rome, in Carthage: North of Africa in front of Sicily, in the year 825 b.c
HEBREW: Governed by King David and his son Salomon. Their culture was spread through the Bible, in Canaan, From 1400 b.c. to 970 b.c.
MYCENEAN
It was a kingdom created by the Achaens 400 years later after replacing Crete thalassocracy.
Mycenean: It was an early civilization that developed in Greece.
They dominated the Agean Sea until about 1400 B.C.
The Achaeans, people assaulted and sacked Knossos, and replaced the thalassocracy.
GREEKS EXPANSION
They started to establish different colonies over the Mediterranean sea: Jonia, Athens and Alejandria.
Also known as Archaic Period.
Formation of the “polis”(cities-states).
In the Archaic Period, there were vast changes in the Greek language, society, art, architecture, and politics.
GOLDEN AGE
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ATHENS AND SPARTA LED TO THE DESTRUCTIVE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.
In addition to their concepts of beauty, their statues and their architectural forms, the Greeks left us their alphabet, adapted from the Phoenician, to which they added vowels and which served as the basis for the Roman alphabet we use today.
Democracy was consolidated internally and it was considered as the Age of Pericles.
GREECE ECONOMY
Greece’s economy was mainly maritime and commercial.
From the second half of the 7th century B.C. the Greeks began to use currency in their exchanges.
Each city- state made their own kind of coin.