Friday, February 21, 2014

Today: Laura and Erica Teach the Class


  • Greece shared in crisis and recovery of the lands between the Mediterranean sea and Indian Ocean
  • "Classical" Greek Civilization = 800 B.C
  • Art Forms, and types of gov. = was created
  • Greek city states = citizen participation in gov.
  • Barbarian - based on farming, warfare, and tribal org. that became widespread in Europe beginning around 2500 B.C.
  • Megaliths - massive rough cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs
  • Tribe - a social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interest; traditions and real or mythical ties of kinship.
  • 4000 B.C. = farming and village spreads
  • 3500 B.C. = Western Europe construction happens
  • Stonehenge = huge open air monument built by farming and trading ppl in west of England
  • Final form = 2000 B.C.
  • People started to change languages > Indo European origin..
  • Warriors were highly respected = warriors were like gods; when they died they went to an after life with his horses and chariots etc.
  • Women came with the warriors to battle to encourage or even join the fight.
  • Groups of villages or farmsteads formed tribes, held together by common interest, traditions and real or mythical ties of kinship.
  • Traded with Asia Minor, Mesopotamia or Egypt in return of some luxuries of civ.
  • Europe = no cities, written records or form of gov.
  • 2000 - 1000 B.C. barbarians came to contact with civ.
  • 1st contact with civ. were the Greeks > first to be counted as "Western"
  • Greeks settled in mainland Greece = 2000 B.C.
  • 1200 and 800 B.C. = spread through islands and eastern cost-lands of Aegean Sea
Their lives centered around strength and courage, comradeship and loyalty, contests and battles.  They always lived their lives to the best of their ability. 

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