Venice Wood | The Same People (who moved) | Land Grabs and Gun Powder
(The beginning of Empire) Buildings in Venice are built over 10,000,000 close-together, 60-foot-long, water-resistant tree trunks that were chopped down 500 years ago. The wood went through soft silt and dirt to a layer of hard clay that was strong enough to support buildings on top. [If wood stays continuously wet and oxygen free it can last for thousands of years if you were to pull one of those from the muck it would look like it was cut yesterday. The same holds true for wood kept dry in low humidity like the 5,000 years old wooden objects they found in the pyramids.] 👇THE SAME PEOPLE Did ancient Greeks have any awareness of other civilizations, such as the Minoan civilization of Crete, the Etruscans, or the Phoenicians? YES! Sure, the Greeks remembered the Minoans and interacted with both Etruscans and Phoenicians. The Minoans , a mesmerizing civilization of the Bronze Age, predated the Greeks and didn’t coincide with them. They had merged with the...