- LO1 - describes the way of life of the barbarian peoples of Europe after the Agricultural Revolution
- Greek-city states were the first to practice citizen participation in government
- the city-states also traded and colonized along the Mediterranean Sea
- after 500 BC it enabled them to preserve their independence against the kings of Persia
- over 3,000 years up to the Persian Empire, civilization had spread from its Sumerian and Egyptian homelands to right across from southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa
- to lands stretching two thousand miles northwestern which is now called Europe
- 4000 BC farming and village life had spread throughout the continent
- by 3500 BC there were peoples in western Europe who could construct ceremonial monuments
- megalithic- word meaning large boulder
- archeologists have found traces of them in the soil
- Stonehenge was a huge open- air monument built by a prosperous farming and trading people wets of England
- was built in 2000 BC
- consists of 160 massive boulders that weigh 50 tons each
- 2500 BC was when Indo European Peoples moved into Europe
- European peoples had traditionally worshipped that turned to Gods of fatherhood and thunder
- when a leading warrior died all his belongings would go with him in his grave
- the warriors wife would be buried next to him
- tribes- groups of villagers or farmsteads
- tribes formed loose alliances under warrior kings or queens and together they would battle comrades
- tribal groupings fought for metals, slaves, and other items that brought prestige the their possessors
- these groups were mostly temporary
- people who spoke Indo-European were most likely skilled in farming, metalworking, trade, and warfare
- those people were called barbarians
- barbarians was from the original word barbaros meaning non-Greek
- 2500 BC when tribal groups and the way of life that emerged in Europe
- 1000 AD 2000 years ago the European peoples came into contact with civilization
Monday, February 17, 2014
Chapter 3 Notes
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