Ancient Greece: The Crucible of Civilization

An early emblem of Eastern Mediterranean civilization arose on the island of Crete. The ruins discovered on Bronze Age Crete allow us to see what sort of shape an ancient civilization could take when it had advanced technologies and trading connections. If you were a Sumerian living within Eroshot of the mountains of Iran, or in Egyptian, living south of the Nile's first cataract where Nubian raiders could show up at any moment, you built walls. A little melancholy, maybe, but at least glad to be home. And if you've listened to the first six episodes of this podcast, you're quite well equipped to understand how fantastic the civilization that Eroshot Crete