LO 1

The European Barbarians
- 4000 bc - farming and village life spreads from Sumerian and Egyptian lands across SW asia
- 3500 bc - some are organized enough to construct megaliths, massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs, such as Stonehenge, (stacked and circled)
- from 2500 bc on- European nomads migrated from the steppes in
                         - their language would evolve into greek and latin
                         - lives centered around strength and courage, comradeship and loyalty, contests and battles
- 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 (The Odyssey)
- Tribes- groups of people held together by common interest
- Tribes were headed by hereditary chieftains, thought of as kings
- no cities, no written records, no fixed structures of government
- good at trading
- good at warfare
- good at metalworking
- were Barbarians
- adopted the way of life of those whom they encountered, as they traveled, this is eventually how civilization spread
- the Greeks developed civilization is the first that counts as definitely "Western"