Blog 11 : Homework

For homework we had to read Chapter 3:
Vocab:

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.
Tribe: A social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship.
Megalith:A large stone that forms a prehistoric monument.
Indo -European:A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia.
Western: Situated in the west, or directed toward or facing the west 

The Earliest Europeans

4000B.C Farming and village life had spread throughout the Continent 

3588B.C- population & wealth increased; western Europe became organized and constructed

ceremonial monuments tombs,& fortifications

*Megalithic-Big rough-cut stones used to build monuments tombs

 Stonehenge

•Huge, open-air monument

•Built by; farming: trading poplin the west-England

•Religious center | museum

82000 B.C.-reached final form

oacontanse up to 160 massive boulders; weighed-up-to 5¢ tense each

• Aligned to the movements of the sun/ moon

The Barbarian way of life

2500 B.C.-Indo-European PPI moved into Europe

*war-like PPI

*Tribeswomen barbarian PPI to make contact w/

civilization were the Greeks

chronology:

3500B... _ megalithic structures constructed in  Europe

38500 B.C.-Indo-European nomads from the Steepens  migrate into Europe; European barbarian way of life evolves

2200B... _ Minoan civilization takes root in Crete; Greeks arrive  in SE Europe

1600 B.C.-Greek fortified settlements along the Aegean develop Mycenaean cir.

1400 BC _ Destruction of Minoan towns

 1200 B.C.-Mycenaean cir falls; beginning of "park Ages" of Greek history

 800 B.C. -Recovery in the Aegean; Greek city-states form    494-4453.... Persian wars

 460-430 B.C.-Godden Age of Athens