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On 22 Dec 2006 03:01:20 -0800, in sci.archaeology, Jack Linthicum wrote:
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>Greg wrote:
>> What are your 1 - 3 personal favorite historic civilizations and
>> please say why, for each one named.
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>> Mine are :
>> Indus Valley civilisation, amazing : prolific traders with diplomatic
>> contacts among many other great civilisations, consummate engineers,
>> artisans, farmers, architects and elements of their culture seem to
>> have given rise to the great mythological and philosophical systems of
>> northern India.
>>
>> Akkadian Empire, badass conquerors, but also adapted the scientific,
>> mythological and literary achievements of their Sumerian predecessors.
>> They also had wide-ranging trade and diplomatic contacts with Egypt,
>> Bahrain, India, Cyprus etc.
>>
>> Hittite Empire, so much of our Western culture can be traced back to
>> them and their influence on classical civilisations. Their adaptation
>> of Hurrian culture is fascinating, as is their mythology, warfare,
>> craftsmanship, literature.
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>1. Minoan as exemplified by the murals at Akrotiri
>2. Mu
>3. the Sea going people of the Pacific, Polynesian, Melanesian,
>Micronesia
Mu? Even more fictional than Atlantis.
We don't seem to have defined civilization either -- 3, your sea-going
people, don't fit within the definitions usually used by archaeologists,
you know, cities, standing army, class structure, etc.
One of my favorite fictional civilizations is Lyra's world, love the
'daemons'.
http://www.bridgetothestars.net/index.php?d=encyclopaedia&p=lyrasworld
DOug
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