The First European Civilization: The Greeks

The Greeks, also known as part of the European barbarian peoples, kind of created their own way of life. Their life consisted of farming and warfare. Around 2000 B.C. they moved into the southeastern region of Europe. They were near the area of Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. When faced with different types of people they shared in their lifestyles and adapted to advanced ways. Barbarian was just used as a term describing people whose life consisted of farming, warfare, and tribal organization. These type of people started to spread all over Europe around 2500 B.C. Around 3500 B.C. in Western Europe people started to build ceremonial monuments. These monuments had circles and rows of boulders. These structures were referred to as “megalithic.”  They were referred to as “megalithic” because the huge stones that were used to create these monuments the peoples in Western Europe built, were referred to as “megaliths.”