Powerpoint and Notes on Chapter 3 LO1

Today we talked about Chapter 3: The First European Civilizations. The acropolis was an area of land that was over the city used as a lookout place. The highest point in Athens was called the Parthenon. In 3500 B.C Megalithic structures constructed in Europe. In 2500 B.C Indo- European nomads from the steppes migrate into Europe: European barbarian way of life evolves. Indo- Europeans are all those people from India to Europe that migrated around.Then we talked about the earliest barbarians. The barbarians were tribal people of Indo- European descent who eventually came into contact with civilization, The peoples of prehistoric Europe were organized enough to establish cultural rituals and built megaliths, stone tombs, and monuments. Stonehenge, in England, was built with massive stone boulders and arranged according to solar and lunar cycles. Then we talked about the geography of Greece. Greece is a mountainous peninsula. The mountains cover three fourths of the terrain. The location shaped Greece's culture.  The sea between Greece and Turkey is the Aegean Sea. The sea between Italy and Greece is called the Ionian sea. Crete is the island under Greece. Their are approximately 1,400 islands in the Aegean Sea and Ionian Sea. The Greece were skilled sailors. Greece had poor natural resources that is why they traded mostly. It was easier to trade by sailing around Greece then going through the mountains. Greece was difficult to unite because of the terrain. They developed small independent communities. They thought the Mediterranean Sea was the middle of the world. Then we started working on a powerpoint on what we learned today in partners. My partner is Eleanor.