MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATIONS
GREECE
CONTENT
CIVILIZATIONS BEFORE GREECE AND ROME
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ORIGIN OF GREECE:CRETE AND MYCEANAEN
THE GOLDEN AGE
It was the third power in the Middle East
Anatolia Peninsula
Between XVII to XII century b.c
Governed by King David and his son Salomon. Their culture was spread through the Bible
From 1400 b.c. to 970 b.c.
Canaan
•It was a thalassocracy
•Good navigation system
•First consonant alphabet
Lebanon coast
From XII century b.c.
It was a Phoenician city that gained independence substituting the Phoenicians.
•Centralized sewage system.
•Defeated by Rome
Carthage: North of Africa in front of Sicily
825 b.c
It was) a thalocrassy whose capital was Knossos
- They dominated the Agean Sea until about 1400 B.C.
-The Achaeans, people assaulted and sacked Knossos, and replaced the thalassocracy
It was a kingdom created by the Achaens 400 years later after replacing Crete thalassocracy.
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ATHENS AND SPARTA LED TO THE DESTRUCTIVE PELOPONNESIAN WAR