- New ideas.
- Incredible art forms.
- Life was based on farming and warfare.
- In 2000BC they began to migrate to Europe's southeastern region.
- Its land was between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.
- Citizen participation government (democracy).
- Main business life was farming.
- Population was smaller compared to Egypt and Mesopotamia.
- First barbarian people to make contact with civilization.
- The distinctive civilization they developed is the first that counts as "Western"
Vocab
- Barbarian - used to describe the distinctive way of life based on farming, warfare and tribal organization.
- Megaliths - massive rough-cut stone used to construct tombs and monuments.
- Normally built by a farming and trading people in the west England about 2000 BC.
- Most impressive achievement was the Stonehenge.
- Consisted of 160 massive boulder, each about 50 tons.
- Each stacked and circled and aligned to the movements of the sun and moon.
- Tribe - social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests.
- Fought each other for metals, slaves, and other things that can be exported.
- Chieftains - king or queens.
European Barbarians
- 4000 BC
- Farming and village life spreads from Sumerian and Egyptian lands
- 3500 BC
- Constructed megaliths
- 2500 BC on
- Indo-Europe nomads migrated
- Their language would evolve into Greek and Latin
- Their lives centered around strength, courage, comradeship, loyalty, contests, and battle.
- No cities, written records, or fixed structures of government.
- Adopted the way of life of those that encountered.
- How civilization eventually spread through Europe.
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