Exploration

Led by the Ionians dwelling in Asia Minor, the Greeks, beginning in the seventh century BCE , undertook a systematic investigation of the lands and peoples around them. Their researches and theories gradually filled out a picture of the oikoumene , the “inhabited earth” made up of Africa, Asia and Europe, that was handed down to the Romans and through them to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

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