LO1; LO2; LO3

3500 BC: Megalithic structures were constructed
2500 BC: IE nomads; steppes migrated to Europe
2200 BC: Minoan Civilization took root
1600 BC: Greek chieftains established settlements
1400 BC: Rivalry ended with destruction of Minoans (mystery); "sea people" destroyed the Minoans

Stonehedge

• most famous megalithic structure
• used as a calendar and religious

Barbarian way of Life

• put all belongings with dead
• war-like people
• women could go to war for care or encouragement
• Barbarians came in contact with everyone; learned what they saw from everyone else (very beneficial)

Geography of Greece

• 3/4 mountainous
• Ionian sea is to the west and Aegean Sea is to the east (trade, food, sailing, etc.)
• poor natural resources
• hard to unite Greeks because they were so spread out
• Crete was to the south
• Peloponnesian Peninsula (Sparta)

Tribes

• groups of people
• connected by culture, tradition and common interest
• you could leave a tribe

-Mediterranean (middle of Earth)

-Acropolis is the hill, not the Parthenon structure on of it

-Main wealth came from farming

-had lots of timber and metals

-Minoans civilization arose in Crete in 2200 BC (wealth came from surrounding seas, most trading was with Egypt)

-Mycenaean civilization arose about the same as Minoan; crashed same time

-Big Rivalry

Buried rulers in huge, stone-lined underground chambers

Dark Ages

• started with crisis downfall of Hittites
• no one knows what happened
• Greeks survived the Dark Ages
• There are no written records

Renewal of Greek

• grew in 800 BC so much that they ran out of their supply
• Olympics-stopped for thousands of years
• started to adapt and migrate and learn from civilizations before themtribal communication develped into city-states
• fortresses and temples are extremely important

Greek City-States

• small and more like a county than anything

Hoplite: men-at-arms

-Greeks 1st city states developed same time Assyrians were reaching for power west from Mesopotamia

-the army's solider's were citizens who could afford it

-soldiers were treated better than they are now-a-days

Government

• Sparta was an Oligarchy
• Social conflicts could lead to emergency of a tyranny
• common people too big and active to ignore
• Greeks gave more voice to the people
• Triremes
• women have a lot more rights in Sparta than other placesb