Outline of Chapter 3

Today in class we went over a Chapter 3 outline that Mr. Schick made. It started off by talking about LO1, The European Barbarians. In 4000 BC farming and village life spread through out Europe.By 3500 BC the increase in population and wealth lead to the building of religious structures. Then his outline  talked about the Barbarians Way of life. They had a common way of life as a result of the Indo-European nomads(2500 BC and onward) from the steppes that bordered Europe on the East. Their languages are the ancestor languages of Greek and Latin. The Elite people in their group were the warriors. They had a farming and village life. In this way, Europe came to be inhabited by peoples who spoke mostly Indo- European languages, who were skilled in farming, metalworking, trade, and warfare, and who were fairly well organized on the local level, but had no  cities,written records, or fixed structures of government.In 2000 BC to 1000 Ad these barbarians came into contact with civilization. The first such European barbarian people to make contact with civilization were the Greeks. Their civilization, the first to emerge in Europe, was the first to definitively be labeled " Western".  Then his outline talked about LO2, The Aegean Encounter. In LO2 it talked about the  Minoan Civilization. In 2200 BC a distinct civilization known as the Minoan arose on the Aegean island of Crete.  Minoans drew wealth from control of the seas and trade with eastern Mediterranean lands, especially Egypt. Then it talks about The Arrival of the Greeks: Mycenaean Civilization. When the Greeks made their way to the Aegean, they seem to have been  a European barbarian people much like any other. Eventually they came under the influence of nearby Crete. By 1600 BC Greek chieftains had established settlements along the mainland's southern shore and some islands. The struggles between Mycenaean and Minoans for control of the commerce of the eastern Mediterranean lasted until 1400 BC with the destruction of Minoan towns, perhaps as a result of Mycenaean conquest.   Then the outline talked about the Dark Ages.  The Mycenaean Civilization lasted until shortly after 1200 BC due to the conquest of the Sea peoples. In 1150 BC Mycenaean was sacked and all settlements deserted in addition, the population dropped, and writings fell out of use. This led to the eclipse of civilization for almost 400 years known as the Dark Ages( 1150-750). The Greeks themselves survived and even expanded their territory. The Renewal of the Greek Civilization was the next topic talked about in the outline. In 800 BC the Aegean region was recovered. The population expansion led to founding of colonies in 800- 600 BC. The Greeks joined the Phoenicians as the leading commercial and seafaring nation of the Mediterranean  They had a common religion. They also had new developments in the use of iron tools and weapons,coined money,borrowing of Phoenician shipbuilding and warfare techniques, and writing and the alphabet formed the Greek language. Then the outline talked about Citizens and Communities: The Greek City States(LO3). Notion of citizenship seems to have originated partly in geography.