Friday's class, and a preview of Monday's work

Here's my attempt at doing your homework.

But first... want to get a jump on the classwork for Monday?  You'll be reading LO3 - Citizens and Communities: The Greek City-States on p. 51-59.

Now for my look at LO1 - The European Barbarians.  You're welcome.

Notes on p. 45-48

Why the Greeks rocked:

            New ideas

            Incredible art forms

            Democratic government w/ citizen participation

Innovators in warfare

LO1 – The European Barbarians

4000 BC – farming and village life spreads from Sumerian and Egyptian lands across SW Asia and NE Africa, and the European continent

3500 BC – some are organized enough to construct megaliths, massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs, such as Stonehenge (finished in England in 2000 BC), consisting of 160 massive boulders weighing up to 50 tons (100,000 pounds) each, stacked and circled and aligned to the movements of sun and moon 

From 2500 BC on – Indo-European nomads migrated from the steppes in eastern Europe

            Their language would evolve into Greek and Latin

            Their lives centered around strength and courage, comradeship and loyalty, contests and battle - the Greek word for this is arête

            Thinner populations than Egypt or Mesopotamia – they formed tribes, social and political unit consisting of communities held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship

            Tribes were headed by powerful hereditary chieftains, thought of as kings (or, rarely, queens)

This is how Europe came to be populated by speakers of Indo-European languages who were skilled in farming, metalworking, trade, and warfare

No cities, no written records, no fixed structures of government

They were barbarians (from Greek barbaros – “non-Greek”)

They adopted the way of life of those they encountered, and as they traveled (from 2000 BC to AD 1000), this is how civilization eventually spread throughout Europe

The distinctive civilization the Greeks developed is the first that counts as definitely “Western”

(BTW... what I've done here is consolidate over four full  pages down to around 250 words.  If I can do it, you can do it.  Sure makes it easier to study!)