2200—400 B.C.
Within classical Greek civilization
there appeared ideas, art forms, and types of government whose influence on
Western Civilization has lasted down to the present day.
Greece were innovators in
warfare, developing methods of fighting by and sea after 500 B.C., enabled them
to preserve their independence against the mighty kings of Persia
Barbarian-the distinctive way of
life based on farming, warfare, and tribal organization that became widespread
in Europe around 2500 B.C.
By 4000 B.C. farming and village
life had spread throughout the continent.
By 3500 B.C. there were people in
Western Europe who were numerous and well organized to construct ceremonial monuments.
Megaliths-massive rough-cut
stones used to construct monuments and tombs.
Stonehenge was repeatedly rebuilt
over a period of several hundred years, until it was finished about 2000 B.C.
Stonehenge consists of about 160
massive boulders, weighing up to 50 tons each.
Stonehenge is the most famous of
megalithic structures was built by a farming and trading people in the west of
England in 2000 B.C.
Tribe-a social and political unit
consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests,
traditions, and real mythical ties of kinship.
The Greeks settled in Greece from
about 2000 B.C. onward. Between 1200 and 800 B.C. The spread to islands and
western coastlands of the Aegean Sea, Greeks continued to migrate across Europe
and Asia from the western Mediterranean to the borders of India, but the Aegean
region remained the center of the Greek world.
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