The reason why even such a sophisticated historian as Pagden can do it is that the idea that Greece is the cradle of civilisation is so much rooted in western minds and school curicula as to be taken for granted | Thus a land like ancient Hellas, by its division into many geographic units, separated from one another mostly by mountains, seems almost predestined for political fragmentation |
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James Whitley 4 October 2001 | "From resurrection to insurrection: 'sacred' myths, motifs, and symbols in the Greek War of Independence" |
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11[The economic crisis in Greek lands in the beginning of 19th century and its effects on the Revolution of 1821] | Although the first writing originates in the cradle of civilization along Middle Eastern rivers — the Tigris, Euphrates, and Nile — the true cradle of Western literature is Athens |
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Michigan: University of Michigan Press | "The Contribution of the Revision of 2001" |
But the idea of learning more about Greece — the cradle of Western civilization, a fresh example of tectonic forces at.
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