. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools. y seem more dependent upon Babylonian and Assyrian Hittites had progressed farenough to have a written language , ,, ; ° ° A JliiiiJJ. WaBBIOB. Of their own, and an independent , „m/., ,,„,,„„ ,„, skill in sculpture and in are to be reckoned as one of the peoples throughwhom the civilization of Egypt and Babylon passed over toEurope by way of Asia Minor. They came into contactu it h i he (Yet an civilizal ion of t he ^Egean islands, and 1 hroughthe Cretans passed on to the later Greeks some of thosethi
. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools. y seem more dependent upon Babylonian and Assyrian Hittites had progressed farenough to have a written language , ,, ; ° ° A JliiiiJJ. WaBBIOB. Of their own, and an independent , „m/., ,,„,,„„ ,„, skill in sculpture and in are to be reckoned as one of the peoples throughwhom the civilization of Egypt and Babylon passed over toEurope by way of Asia Minor. They came into contactu it h i he (Yet an civilizal ion of t he ^Egean islands, and 1 hroughthe Cretans passed on to the later Greeks some of thosethings which the Easl had learned. In spite of our in-ability to read their inscriptions, recent excavations havemade it evident that their influence in shaping ancientcivilization and spreading it westward was very great. 52. Cretan Civilization. -Excavations carried on duringthe past forty years at various places in the peninsula ofGreece, upon the site of ancient Troy in norl hem Asia Minor,and on the ^Egean islands, especially Crete, have brought to. 44 CIVILIZATION OF EGYPT AND WESTERN ASIA Lighl a civilization in many ways as refined as that of theEgyptians and Babylonians. In Crete the development ofthis life has been traced back in unbroken line beyond 1000B. c, to a time when bronze weapons were unknown andthe Cretans were still in the Stone-Age phase of civilization.
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