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Crossing Continents - Between India and the Aegean from Prehistory to Alexander the Great (Paperback)
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Crossing Continents - Between India and the Aegean from Prehistory to Alexander the Great (Paperback)
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The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are thought
to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is
now evidence of much earlier indirect connections, starting in the
middle of the third millennium BC, but greatly diminishing after
1800 BC. These were initially between India with its Indus
Civilisation (Meluḫḫa) and the Near East and then finally with
the societies of the Early and Middle Bronze Age Aegean, with their
slowly emerging palace-based economies and complex social
structures. These connections point to a form of indirect or what
might be called ‘trickle-down’ contact between the Aegean and
India through objects, iconography and commodities, such as tin and
lapis lazuli, that formed this contact. This book views the Aegean
as part of a greater trade network, that includes commodities as
well as more recently discovered objects, which accumulated added
value as they fi rst built up a distinguished pedigree of ownership
in the Near East and Syro-Palestine. It was the natural extension
of trade between the Near East and India. In the Early to Late
Bronze Ages, India was an important resource for valuable and
indispensable commodities destined for the elites and developing
technologies of much of the Old World. Finally, the period after
the end of the Bronze Age to the time of Alexander the Great is
examined and particularly after the sixth century, when Greeks were
beginning to know about India. Within 200 years, India would be
known to scholar and non-scholar alike, including those who
witnessed the Persian invasions of Greece or who later became
Macedonian and Greek foot soldiers marching east.
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