Notes

The acropolis was a hill and highest point in town. 3500 B.C. Indo European nomads from the steppes migrate into Europe. European Barbarian was the way of life. 2200 B.C. Minoan civilization takes root in Crete. Greeks arrive in southeastern Europe. 1600 B.C. Greeks fortified settlements along the Aegean. 1400 B.C. was the destruction of the Minoan towns. The barbarians were tribal people of Indo Eurpoean, they eventually civilized in the east. People of prehistoric Europe were organized to establish megaliths such as stone tombs and monuments. The stone hedge in England was built with stone boulders and arranged according to solar and lunar cycles. The barbarian way of life was often war-like with some central leaders. they practiced rituals and would bury their dead. tribes were formed by their groups and family. The first barbarian people to spread to the Aegean were the Greeks. The east side of Greece is the Aegean sea, and the west side is the Ionian comes between Greece and Italy. Greece is a mountainous peninsula and it is covered by 3/4 mountains. Proximity 1400 islands in Aegean and Ionian Sea. the Location shaped their culture. they had skilled sailors but poor natural resources. it was difficult to unite ancient Greeks because of terrain developed small independent communities.