Ancient Mediterranean world

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The Ancient Mediterranean world refers to the interconnected civilizations and cultures surrounding the Mediterranean Sea in antiquity, including regions such as Greece, Rome, Egypt, and the Near East.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf civilizational complex
cultural region
historical region
centeredOn Mediterranean Sea
characterizedBy colonization
interconnected economies
long-distance trade routes
naval warfare
hasPart Anatolia
Ancient Egypt
linked to: Pharaonic Egypt

Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity

Ancient Levant
linked to: Ancient Near East

Ancient Rome
linked to: Roman Antiquity

Carthaginian civilization
Crete
Cyprus
Etruscan civilization
linked to: Etruscans

Hellenistic kingdoms
Hittite Empire
Iberian cultures
Illyrian tribes
Levantine coast
linked to: Levant region

Mesopotamia
Minoan civilization
Mycenaean Greece
North Africa
Nubia
Persian Empire
linked to: Achaemenid Empire

Phoenicia
Ptolemaic Kingdom
Sicily
influenced European legal traditions
Islamic civilization
linked to: Islamic world

Mediterranean languages
Western civilization
knownFor codified law
cultural exchange
development of writing systems
early empires
early monotheism
maritime trade networks
monumental architecture
philosophy
polytheistic religions
urbanization
locatedIn Mediterranean Basin
timePeriod Bronze Age
Classical antiquity
Hellenistic period
Iron Age
Roman period

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Claudius hasUsageRegion Ancient Mediterranean world
Magna Graecia era Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Asia Minor wasCrossroadsOf Near Eastern civilizations
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Iron Age precedes Classical Antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Iron Age occursIn ancient Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Kerch historicalEra Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Canaan partOf Ancient Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Bronze Age occursIn Ancient Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Theokoleon timePeriod Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Achaemenid Empire partOf Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Late Antiquity follows Classical Antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Ancient Near East collection collectionType Ancient Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Ancient Near East collection focusesOnRegion Ancient Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Nicolas Poussin influencedBy Antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Rhodes historicalPeriod Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Aristotelian physics historicalPeriod Antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Florentine school influencedBy Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Babylon partOf ancient Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Roman Forum era Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Northwest Semitic spokenIn Ancient Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Northwest Semitic timePeriod Classical Antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Tyre timePeriodOfFlourishing Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Sidon historicalEra Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Aramaic alphabet originPlace Ancient Near East
subject linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Aristocles historicalPeriod Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Lydia culturalContext Greco-Roman world
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Hittite Empire partOf Ancient Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Luwian polities partOf Ancient Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Battle of Zama historicalEra Classical antiquity
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Berytus partOf Greco-Roman world
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Justinianic Plague affectedEntity Mediterranean world
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Mediterranean alphabet usedInRegion Mediterranean world
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Palmyrene alphabet culturalContext Greco-Roman Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Eratosthenes areaOfInfluence Mediterranean world
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Leuke Kome connectsTo Mediterranean world
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Roman temple of Jupiter in Damascus culturalContext Greco-Roman Near East
subject linked to: Roman temple of Jupiter
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
King Abgar V of Osroene culturalContext Greco-Roman Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Isis mysteries spreadTo Mediterranean world
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Betharamphtha hasCulturalContext Greco-Roman Near East
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
MuCEM subjectFocus Mediterranean civilisations
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world
Against the Greeks culturalContext Greco-Roman world
linked to: Ancient Mediterranean world