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Survey of the Ancient World
siege, captured and burned the prosperous city of Troy
(§ 205), a feat which the Greeks never after forgot (§ 231)-
Thus during the thousand years between 2000 and 1000 fl-c'
the Greeks took possession not only of the • whole Greek
peninsula, but likewise of the entire ^Egean world.
Fig. 67. Philistine Warriors — a Cretan Tribe driven
out by the greeks
These men with tall, feathered headdress are ^Egean fugitives drive11
from their homes in Crete by the Greek invaders (§ 216). They were
taken prisoners by Ramses III, the last of the Egyptian emperors, 10
the twelfth century B.C. He had this picture of them, with hands
pinioned, engraved on the temple wall in Egyptian Thebes (§ 83)
216. Flight The northern Mediterranean all along its eastern end was
upper daises tnus being seized by invading peoples of Indo-European bio"0-
and fall of coming in from the north. The result was that both the
/Egean civili- 0
zationby ^geans and their Hittite neighbors in Asia Minor were over'
whelmed by the advancing Indo-European line (Fig. 48). The
Survey of the Ancient World
siege, captured and burned the prosperous city of Troy
(§ 205), a feat which the Greeks never after forgot (§ 231)-
Thus during the thousand years between 2000 and 1000 fl-c'
the Greeks took possession not only of the • whole Greek
peninsula, but likewise of the entire ^Egean world.
Fig. 67. Philistine Warriors — a Cretan Tribe driven
out by the greeks
These men with tall, feathered headdress are ^Egean fugitives drive11
from their homes in Crete by the Greek invaders (§ 216). They were
taken prisoners by Ramses III, the last of the Egyptian emperors, 10
the twelfth century B.C. He had this picture of them, with hands
pinioned, engraved on the temple wall in Egyptian Thebes (§ 83)
216. Flight The northern Mediterranean all along its eastern end was
upper daises tnus being seized by invading peoples of Indo-European bio"0-
and fall of coming in from the north. The result was that both the
/Egean civili- 0
zationby ^geans and their Hittite neighbors in Asia Minor were over'
whelmed by the advancing Indo-European line (Fig. 48). The