Chapter 3: Lesson 1 2/17/14

Chapter 3: Lesson 1

·         The first European civilization: the Greeks 2200-400 B.C.

·         Learning objective: Describe the way of life of the barbarian peoples of Europe after the Agricultural Revolution.

·         Barbarian people- distinctive way of life, based on farming and warfare and tribal organization that became widespread in Europe beginning around 2500 B.C.  

·         About 2000 B.C. they began to migrate into Europe’s southeastern region,, within easy reach of the peoples of Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.

·         Became classical Greece in 800 B.C.

·         There appeared ideas, art forms, and types of government

·         Practice citizen participation in government

·         Invented warfare, developing methods of fighting by land and sea 500 B.C.

·         By 4000 B.C. farming and village life had spread throughout the continent

·         Came in increase in population and wealth, in 3500 B.C. there were peoples in western Europe who were numerous and well organized enough to construct ceremonial monuments consisting of circles and rows of huge upright boulders, and tombs and fortification

·         Megalithic- massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs

·         One of the greatest open air monuments was the Stonehenge, rebuilt over years to final 2000 B.C.

·         From about 2500 B.C. onward, Indo-European peoples moved into Europe just as they did into Asia Minor and Persia, and under the influence of the newcomers, the settled people of the region began to form new ethnic groups whose way of life was a mixture of their traditional patterns and Indo-European influences.  

·         Spoke Greek and Latin

·         Tribes- a social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship

·         From 2000 B.C. to right down to A.D. 1000, the European barbarian people came into contact with civilization.

·         As a result of their encounter with peoples to their south and east from 2000 B.C. onward, the Greeks developed a distinctive civilization of their own- the first to emerge in Europe, and the first that counts as definitely “Western.”

People could bring new ideas