What does "Mediterranean" even mean? "(The) Middle (of the) Earth".
The cultures that emerged along the shores of the Mediterranean are powerfully influential & inspirational to this day. As to whether we should even make this "World" we thought about it, a lot.
Instead of only putting the shores of The Mediterranean Sea into The Levant, Southern Europe & Northern Africa is that this is where Africa, Asia & Europe intersect. The story of the cultures that rounded The Mediterranean & Aegean Seas is... has become a very powerful & singular element in world history.
What we are hoping for is that despite any potential (or existent) redundancy between Mediterra, The Levant, Africa & Europe, that two different aspects of the history of the Mediterranean Sea will emerge with as many writers involved as are existent in either of the various "Worlds" that are affected by these decisions. I -for one- can't wait to see how this unfolds!
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The Turks are largely responsible for our government, sciences and SO much more. Let Eyvisl know if you would like to do the write-up for this fascinating culture!
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Hellas (Greece)
The Democratic Greek Civilization :
Greece, called Achaea in very ancient times, was always a story of city-states dotted about the mainland and the various islands across the Aegean Sea. The first phrase of Greek civilization is called 'The Minoan Period', after Minos, the mythical king of the Island of Crete, who lived at Knossos.
The Minoan civilization started around 3,000BCE and lasted until 1,400BCE, when a natural disaster seriously damaged the port and settlement. Meanwhile Greece itself, had constructed famous strongholds of Mycenae & Tiryns.
On the North-West coast of modern day Turkey where Ilium or Troy had been constructed, somewhere around this time-line the Minoan civilization had totally collapsed, the famous and well recorded Trojan War was taking place, but no-one really knows how much the Trojan War was a myth or reality.
All Greek historians really know is Homer's poems of 800BCE, 'The Iliad' & 'The Odyssey', had already been composed. They set the pace of Greek literature, while the uniqueness of Greek art was being developed at this time also.
During this time period , the Greek city-states of Athens & Sparta were being developed into stronghold fortresses. By the fifth century BCE, Athens had reached its climax with the development of a sophisticated democracy and a fresh political theory in the Age of Pericles.
Greek colonies were now dotted around the Mediterranean, including Southern Italy & the Island of Sicily, but the Greek city-states were forever in-fighting, Athens & Sparta brought each other to a virtual ruin in The Peloponesian War.
Thus a weakened Greece was easy prey, first for Philip II, of Macedonia, 357-338BCE, and then for the Romans in 146BCE. But Greek art, culture, literature and sport remained immensely popular in the days of the Roman Empire. Today the Greeks are still heralded as the fathers of modern democracy and civilization.
Reference used : Athildas Coel & Guy de la Bedoyere
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The Roman Empire
Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt.
(transl. "The Beginnings Of All Things Are Small.")
Welcome to The Roman Empire!
The history of Rome
The history of Rome is long and complex, a village that became the Eternal City, is quite an ancient accomplishment, and planting the seed of her Western civilization, a monarchy becoming a Republic reflected through the hist of Europe.
Italy had to be conquered first, before Rome turns its attention to greater Europe, parts of Africa, and then the Near & Middle East, spreading its culture & Literacy over the Mediterranean, also commerce with minted coinage.
All these countries incorporated into a Empire that had around a quarter of the world's population under its governance, packed with immigrating young men, the Romans needed female inhabitants to rectify the imbalance, kidnapping the Sabine womenfolk that sparked off a war that ended with a truce as both Roman & Sabine joined forces.
Right from the start Rome had an organised military, regiments of 3,000 infantry and 300 cavalry were called legions and their foundation was ascribed to Romulus himself.
Almost the only source on this period of Roman history is Titus Livius or Livy (59BCE-17AD). Some 200 years after the conquest of Italy, Livy had composed 142 books on Rome's early history, but only 54 survive to this day.
The last, Tarquin the Proud, was deposed in 509BCE in a revolt lead by Lucius Junius Brutus, the founder of the Roman Republic. Elected Consuls would now rule Rome.
Reference Used : Historia Romanorum.
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