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
- 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
- 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
- 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 fortifications
- 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
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