IV. THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
• Urban life and culture • Alexandria • Hellenistic philosophy
• Cynics • Epicureans • Stoics
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
• What social and geographic factors shaped the Greek culture in the age of the Iliad and the Odyssey?
I. BEFORE CIVILIZATION
• Mesopotamia • The Nile • The Hebrew • The Assyrian Empire • The Babylonian Empire
• The origins of humankind • The Paleolithic era (Old Stone Age, ca. 600.000-10,000 B.C.E.) • The dominance of culture • Social organization, agriculture and religion
• The Etruscans formed the most powerful nation in pre-Roman Italy. They created the first great civilization on the peninsula, whose influence on the Romans as well as on present-day cultureis increasingly recognized. Evidence suggests that it was the Etruscans who taught the Romans the alphabet and numerals, along with many elements of architecture, art, religion, and dress.