- 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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