Chapter 3 LO1

The Intro Section of Chapter three talks about the European Barbarian people and the first Greek civilization. Barbarian was a word used to describe a distinctive way of life based on farming, warfare, and tribal organization that became widespread in Europe around 2500 B.C. The Greeks started to move to Europe's southwestern region around 2000 B.C, so they were close to the people of the Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Egypt. The earliest Greek civilization got most of its way of life from its neighbors.In 800 B.C a classical Greek started and even though it still was influenced mostly by its neighbors it had some new things. Within classical Greek civilization, there appeared ideas, art forms, and types of government that influenced Western Civilization. Western Civilization was  the civilizations on the west side of the earth like Europe .The Greek city states were the first government that let their citizens participate. The Greeks also started to fight by land and sea. In 500 B.C the Greeks got their independence from Persia, who were the main country in charge at the time. In LO1 it talks about European Barbarians. Most people  still lived in the prehistoric village life that came from the Agricultural Revolution. By 4000 B.C farming and village life had spread all over the western hemisphere.The people also became wealthier and the population rose. By 3500 B.C there were people in western Europe who were numerous enough and well organized enough to build ceremonial monuments. These monuments were circles and rows of huge upright boulders and huge earthen tombs and fortifications. The stones in these monuments were called megaliths. Megaliths were massive rough cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs. The word megalith comes from the Greek word meaning " large boulder".One of the most impressive European achievement was the Stonehenge. The Stonehenge was a huge open air monument built by the rich farming and trading people in England. It was rebuilt alot, but finally reached its final form in 2000B.C.  From about 2500 B.C onward  Indo- Eurpoean people moved into Europe . The Indo- European people were the people that had migrated from the Indian area to the European area. The peoples of the region began to speak languages of Indo- Eurpoean origin that were distant ancestors of Greek and Latin. Some Europeans were warriors but most were farmers. They lived in villages or in big farmsteads that housed several families, generally the settlements were widely spread. Groups of villages or farmsteads formed tribes. Tribes were social and political units consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship. The tribal groups fought each other for  metals, slaves, and other items that brought prestige to their prossessors or could be exported to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, or Eygpt in return for the luxuries of civilization. Tribes were mostly temporary. Europe came to be inhabited by people who spoke mostly Indo- european languages, who were skilled in farming, metalworking, and trade, and who were fairly well organized on the local level, but had no cities, written records, or fixed structures of government.