Western Civ Day #11- The Great Greeks

Today in Western Civ we took a test for the first part of class and the next part is what I am posting about. We are to take notes about the next section in our book- the Greeks. So here are my notes for the first part of the chapter.

-first barbaric people

-2000 B.C. they began to migrate to Greece

-they came with ideas, art forms, and types of government

-cause of their great fighting methods they defeated the Persians

-LO is about the European barbarians

-first people of Greece were thought of as suppliers

-megalithic is Greek word for large boulder

-Stonehenge were the most famous of all megalithic structures

-when a leading warrior died his horses, chariot, bronze swords or daggers, and his gold and silver drinking cups went with hi  to the grave

-next to the warrior the wife would lie

-women went to war with men to bring them food, bind wounds, force them back into battle, and in some rare cases join the battle

-main business of life was farming

-lived in villages

-groups of villages formed tribes

-tribe would meet to discuss their business and celebrate festivals

-loose alliances under warrior kings

-they would eventually spread to the islands of Greece

-the barbarians were sometimes the conquerors

-they would adapt the way of civilization one-by-one

-first European barbarians to make contact with civilization were the Greeks

The Greeks lived by their strength and courage which is how they lived

Formed tribes

Tribes were headed by powerful heredity chieftains

This is how Europe came to be populated by speakers Indo-European languages

No cities no records and no government

They were barbarians from Greek barbarns non- Greek

Adopted the way of life of those that they encountered

Distinctive civilization the Greeks developed is the first that became western