300 Word Reading Assignment

Intro to Chapter 3
The intro began with how the Greeks started as European barbarian people. It continued talking about Greece's classical culture. Greece dabbled in art, government, science, and many more things that we will read later in the chapter. Speaking of government Greece's city-states were the first to get the people involved in government.
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Greece was a start of a much more sophisticated class. Megalithic structures were being built, such as the Stonehedge, and a well-organized civilization began to form. Slowly the civilians of Greece started abandoning their earlier barbaric ways until those barbaric ways could not even be remembered anymore because of the new technologies and advancements that had begun to form. The civilization of Greece started to not just work on how to survive anymore but they started creating tradition and they took in Indo-European influences. Indo-European origin was seen through the language that was spoken. Competition started to form throughout men, who centered there lives around strength and victory. The people used gods and goddesses as their way of worship. Even though these new opportunities of wealth and success started turning up, the main job was still farming. Villages and farmsteads were made for the farmers so they could become more of a community. Tribes started to form to create a group all about kinship and for people with common interests. Tribes would sometimes fight each other or they will rise up against warrior kings. Another chunk that made up the civilization were European barbarians. European barbarians were people who spoke the Indo-European language and they were skilled in farming, metalworking, trade, warfare:over all they were a well balanced and organized group of people. A funny thing about the word barbarian is how the social eye view it. They view it as unintelligent kind of good for nothing beings but scholars viewed it as more of a common word for the well balanced Indo-European civilization. Overall so far in the reading we have read about a lot of different groups that I can't see some of them getting along very well but I guess I will see more about it later in the reading.