Ancient Greece

Ancient Barbarians

• had a distinctive way of life that focused on farming and warfare
• about 2000 b.c. they moved to southeastern Europe
• The Greeks shared knowledge and adjusted to barbarians way of life

Ancient Greeks

• first civilization in 800 b.c.
•  was influenced by the barbarians
• the Greeks started having ideas
• art forms
• types of government
• their influence has still lasted to todays world
• were the first to practice in citizen government
• colonized the northern coastlands of the Mediterranean sea
• Italians loved their way of life and modeled their civilization after the Greeks
• innovators in:
• warfare
• developing methods of fighting by land and sea
• shortly after 500 b.c.
• enabled them to keep independence against Persia
• universal leaders of the time
• Greeks would eventually replace them

Vocabulary Terms

•    Barbarian- a term used to describe the distinctive way of life based on farming, warfare, and tribal organization 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

The Early Europeans

• by 4000 b.c. farming and village life had spread thought the continent
•  this brought population and wealth
• 3500 b.c. there were people in in western Europe who could construct ceremonial monuments consisting of circles and rows of huge upright boulders, tombs and fortification
• 3500 b.c. megalithic structures constructed in Europe
• 2500 b.c. Indo-European nomads from the steppes migrate into Europe; European barbarian way of life evolves
• 2200 b.c. Minoan civilization takes root in Crete; Greeks arrive in southeastern Europe
• 1600 b.c. Greek fortified settlements along the Aegean develop Mycenaean civilization
• 1400 b.c. Destruction of Minoan towns
• 1200 b.c. Mycenaean civilization falls; beginning the "dark ages" of Greek History
• 800 b.c. Recovery in the Aegean; Greek city-states form
• 494-445 b.c. Persian wars
• 460-430 b.c. Golden Age of Athens

I will make it my life goal to find out how Stonehenge, its really tall and there is rocks on top of them, I cant imagine how people could of done that. Maybe aliens did help them I mean the Egyptians have aliens drawn in there pictures. So maybe there is aliens that we don't know about. But I will find out how Stonehenge was made, and that is a promise.