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The Phoenicians were sea going traders, and traveled all around the Mediterranean. They were an advanced Civilization, and through their trade and contact with others they spread their knowledge and customs.
Greeks
The Greek world was spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
Rome was/is in central Italy, which in turn was/is in the middle of the Mediterranean, between the western and eastern basins of this sea. This exposed the Romans to the Greek civilisation, which was influential around the eastern and central Mediterranean and also played a role in the development of Roman civilisation. Rome's conquest of the lands of the shores of this sea also played a role.
it was the first major civilization and that it was around during the bronse era
Grecian from f.b
BC is a long time. I assume you are referring to 1 BC. That would be the Roman Empire.
Grecian .
Greek and those civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea.
The Phoenicians, based in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, were a maritime civilization between 1500 and 300 BC, reaching their greatest influence between 1200 and 800 BC. They were supplanted by competition from Greece and Persia, and were left fragmented after their conquest by Alexander the great.
The Phoenicians were sea going traders, and traveled all around the Mediterranean. They were an advanced Civilization, and through their trade and contact with others they spread their knowledge and customs.
Greeks
They were a people who lived in the Levant, traded around the Mediterranean, and invented an alphabet.
Depends on time period. During the earliest history of Western Civilization (ancient Rome) it was centered around the Western Mediterranean. During the middle history of Western Civilization (medieval Latin Christendom) it was centered around Europe. During the modern history of Western Civilization (post 1492) it was and still is centered on the Atlantic Ocean due to European colonization of the Americas. Today, the Western world is also known as the "Euro-Atlantic world" because of that.
Fertile Crescent refers to the area around the Mediterranean Sea where civilization is thought to have originated.
The Greeks established over 2,000 independent city-states around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
Most of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were around the Mediterranean Sea.