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If you could pick one word that describes the activity that the Greeks took which enabled Greek culture to influence civilizations throughout the Mediterranean, including the Romans, what would it be?
Lol…well Ski got the word I was looking for, but they're all good guesses.Here's a map of where Greece established colonies in the Mediterranean (in red). Impressive.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/AntikeGriechen1.jpg
Another influence would be Culture, not only knowledge and philosophy but arts as well : architecture, sculpture, pottery, even religion (Rome just took it all) and politics (city-state system, republican democracy and citizenship, etc…)I believe that Western Civilisation roots are more related with Ancient Greece (through Rome's heritage). Hence the exact importance of Egypt about Greece
Do you know the routes they typically took? Were they comfortable being out of sight of land for days at a time?
“The Greeks Overseas” by John Boardman is an excellent book about Greek colonization. They were definitely a sea-faring people, so quite comfortable and knowledgable with sea travel, but they weren't really out of sight of land for too many days as they mostly did island hopping.
You probably know where I am headed with this as I do have a fascination with pre-Columbian crossings…I am not so much proposing that maybe the Greeks did that as that from early days there was experience with living aboard for days at a time with no land in sight. I think that gets over dramatized in many accounts of Columbus era crossings and sea travel. I think many, if not most, sailors believed there was a far shore when uncharted water went beyond the horizon.
That wouldn't surprise me. I was always curious at that spiral art symbol (forgot the name of it. Phid?) that is found in Egypt, Greece, Ireland, and Mesoamerica. And I do think that the Greeks travelling is a more feasible theory than aliens. 😀
Some of the best evidence is biological:http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/transcripts/?id=154
That wouldn't surprise me. I was always curious at that spiral art symbol (forgot the name of it. Phid?) that is found in Egypt, Greece, Ireland, and Mesoamerica. And I do think that the Greeks travelling is a more feasible theory than aliens. 😀
Spiral?
That wouldn't surprise me. I was always curious at that spiral art symbol (forgot the name of it. Phid?) that is found in Egypt, Greece, Ireland, and Mesoamerica. And I do think that the Greeks travelling is a more feasible theory than aliens. 😀
Spiral?
Like thishttp://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/newgrange/artgallery/newgrange-art-8.jpgThey are also found in Minoan structures as well as Egypt and the Americas.
I didn't mean to generate too much of a tangent, but my point was that they may have influenced other civilizations by making multi-day sea voyages somewhat routinely. Whether they were influenced by some other civilization in that respect is another question, though.
That wouldn't surprise me. I was always curious at that spiral art symbol (forgot the name of it. Phid?) that is found in Egypt, Greece, Ireland, and Mesoamerica. And I do think that the Greeks travelling is a more feasible theory than aliens. 😀
Spiral?
Like thishttp://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/newgrange/artgallery/newgrange-art-8.jpgThey are also found in Minoan structures as well as Egypt and the Americas.
Ok but why from the Greeks ?
