The First European Civilization: The Greeks.

Greece shared in crisis and recovery of the lands between the Mediterranean sea and Indian Ocean
"Classical" Greek Civilization = 800 B.C
Art Forms, and types of gov. = was created
Greek city states = citizen participation in gov.
Barbarian - based on farming, warfare, and tribal org. 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.
4000 B.C. = farming and village spreads
3500 B.C. = Western Europe construction happens
Stonehenge = huge open air monument built by farming and trading ppl in west of England
Final form = 2000 B.C.
People started to change languages > Indo European origin..
Warriors were highly respected = warriors were like gods; when they died they went to an after life with his horses and chariots etc.
Women came with the warriors to battle to encourage or even join the fight.
Groups of villages or farmsteads formed tribes, held together by common interest, traditions and real or mythical ties of kinship.
Traded with Asia Minor, Mesopotamia or Egypt in return of some luxuries of civ.
Europe = no cities, written records or form of gov.
2000 - 1000 B.C. barbarians came to contact with civ.
1st contact with civ. were the Greeks > first to be counted as "Western"
Greeks settled in mainland Greece = 2000 B.C.
1200 and 800 B.C. = spread through islands and eastern cost-lands of Aegean Sea