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Barbarian- A person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person. (war like and aggressive)
Megalithic- A stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work.
Tribe- a division of some other people.
Indo- European- A large, widespread family of languages.
Western- directed or proceeding toward the west.


     The Greeks had started out their civilization like those of the barbarians. Their lives factored around things such as warfare and protecting themselves, and also farming so they could feed the large amount of people they had. The Greeks advanced because they went to other advanced civilizations and learned things from them. They encountered those of the Asia minor, Mesopotamia, and even Egypt all of which have become very successful at this time. Lands were shared between civilizations by the Mediterranean, which forced the civilization to communicate with one another. Italy were the most innovators of warfare, and competed to be the best at what they did. Since Greece was so barbaric, they fought to get control over the most they possible could. It took civilization to spread up until the rise of the Persian empire. Besides the western hemisphere, all of the other regions of the world were still living in prehistoric villages and lifestyles. Europeans used megalithic structures, so it would take more to defeat them, because they were for ceremonies and monuments for people of importance. Stonehenge was a  very impressive structure built, made up of 160 boulders and each of them weighing 50 tons each. Migrations of the Indo- Europeans caused the Barbarians to have a distinctive way of life. from 2500 B.C on people from Europe were starting to move into Asia minor and even Persia. The languages spoke here came from bases of Latin and Greek, and even today, we can realize just how many of these languages evolved from Latin because words are similar or easy to guess in the languages. They had a different type of way to remember those of their family who had died. They worshiped the God's of fatherhood, thunder, metalworking, and war. Tribes had chiefs so they could be run. All the people of the tribe shared common beliefs, and this was a place for them to get together with people like them. The Aegean encounter was when all the people along the Mediterranean sea were selling and trading many different things. Greek culture was influenced heavily by surrounding areas and civilizations that brought new ideas to them.