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| - See main articles: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome On the rough but fertile terrain on the northern Great Sea, a thriving civilization had arisen on the island known today as Crete. It is thought that the island, being west of Egypt on the African continent, had borrowed much of its culture from the earliest days of its sea-faring ways. Others say that it was the Phoenicians that brought civilization there. Whatever the case, it was fate that destroyed it in the way of a massive earthquake. Raiders from the mainland, what we now call Greece, took advantage of the situation and built up their own infant civilization from the ruins. One young Greek would, in the days following the fall of the civilizations of East Asia, conquer lands as far north as the Himalayan foothills and down into Africa
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| - See main articles: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome On the rough but fertile terrain on the northern Great Sea, a thriving civilization had arisen on the island known today as Crete. It is thought that the island, being west of Egypt on the African continent, had borrowed much of its culture from the earliest days of its sea-faring ways. Others say that it was the Phoenicians that brought civilization there. Whatever the case, it was fate that destroyed it in the way of a massive earthquake. Raiders from the mainland, what we now call Greece, took advantage of the situation and built up their own infant civilization from the ruins. One young Greek would, in the days following the fall of the civilizations of East Asia, conquer lands as far north as the Himalayan foothills and down into Africa - including Egypt. The campaigns of Alexander the Great, though, would fail to prosper long after his premature death. Within two centuries the empire would be replaced by possibly the most successful empire in earth history. Centered in Rome, a city-state that took advantage of its sub-tropic location between the Adriatic Sea and the Great Sea (now called the Eastern Sea), the new empire would eventually control lands reaching south of the equator and west to Scandinavian peninsula. Isolated on the west by the mountain range known as the Alps, the Italian peninsula provided an excellent environment for a republic to arise. That republic became an empire about fifty years before a Jewish teacher arose in the East Asia whose quiet religion would change the empire in its waning days. Over all, though the Empire would last in some form for almost two thousand years. The southern Roman Empire, though, would fall in the fifth century of the Current Era (dated from the birth of the Jewish Messiah, whose religion had become the state religion of Rome). The Fall of Rome in AD 476 would lead into a period known to some as the "Dark Ages." But it was not totally dark, as pockets of civilization flourished in both formerly Roman provinces (in which the religious leaders held sway) and among the Scandinavians which had contact with them. In the northern portion of the empire the Greek-speaking civilization around Constantinople flourished even as it came in contact with a new religion that arose in East Asia and spread west and south. Constantinople would fall in 1453 and with it the last of what had been known as the Byzantine empire. The Byzantine empire was at first comprised of Greece and much of turkey, but would eventually gain back much of Rome's territory only to lose it again.
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