Greeks:
- new ideas
- incredible art forms
- democratic government w/ citizen participation
The European Barbarians:
- 400 BC
- farming and village life spreads from Sumerian Egyptian lands across SW Asia and NE Africa, and the European continent
- 3500 BC
- some are organized enough to construct megaliths, massive rough-cut stones used to construct monument and tombs, such as Stonehenge(finished in England in 2000BC), consisting of 160 massive boulders weighing up to 50 tons (100,000 pounds) each, stacked and circled and aligned to the movements of sun and moon.
- From 2500 BC on-Indo-
- European nomads migrated from the steppes of eastern Europe
- their language would evolve into Greek and Latin
- Their lives centered around strength and courage, comradeship and loyalty, contests and battle
- Thinner population than Egypt or Mesopotamia-
- they formed tribes, social and political unit consisting of communities held together by common interests, tradition, and real or mythical ties of kinship.
- tribes were headed by powerful hereditary chieftains, thought of as kings (or, rarely, queens)
- This is how Europe came to be populated by speakers of Indo-European languages who were skilled in farming, metalworking, trade, and warfare
- no cities, no written records, no fixed structures of government
- they were barbarians(from Greek barbaros-"non-Greek")
- they adopted the way of life of those they encountered, and as they traveled (from 2000BC to AD 1000), this is how civilization eventually spread throughout Europe.
- The distinctive civilization the Greeks developed is the first that counts as definitely "Western"
I probably didn't have to copy all of this but at least i have all of the notes now so that I won't fail a test in the future.
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