monday

                                       The first European civilization: the Greeks

• barbarian is the way of life based on farming, warfare, and tribal organization that became widespread in Europe beginning around 2500 B.C
• within classical Greek civilization there appeared ideas, art forms, and types of government whose influence on western civilization has lasted down to the present day

• by 200 BC they began to migrate into Europe's southeastern region

• 500 = developed methods of fighting  

• barbarian- a term used to describe the distinctive way of life based on farming, warfare, and tribal organization that became widespread in Europe beginning in 2500 BC

• megaliths- massive rough cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs

• a tribe is a social and political  unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship

• in 4000 BC framing and village life spread

• a megalithic is a massive rough cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs

• 3500 BC =megalithic structures constructed in Europe

• 2500 BC =Indo-European nomads from the steppes migrate into Europe, European barbarian way of life evolves

• a tribe is a social and political unit of consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship

• 494-445 BC= Persian wars

• Stonehenge: The most famous of megalithic structures was built by a farming and trading people in the west of England about 2000 B.C.

• 460-430 BC= golden age of Athens  

• 2000 BC =Greeks developed a distinctive civilization