talking about ancient greese

new ideas
incredible art forms
        had a lot of talent
democratic government with citizen participation
        the Greeks invented democracy.
innovations in warfare
        they liked to kick butt
        get in big groups and charge with about 100 people with spears and stuff...
4000 BC - farming and village life - farming crops, living in villages near rivers
3500 BC - some of these people are organized to form megaliths, massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments, tombs, such as Stonehenge.
families are getting bigger and population is getting bigger.
lives centered around strength and courage, comradeship and loyalty, contests and battle.
arete - excellence.
they always do the best they can - unlike some of the world now.
they fought like maniacs.
tribe - social and political unit consisting of communities held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship.
they were great at metal-working.
really good at trade.
    not only trading things, but ideas and sometimes belief.
incorporated other people's ideas all the time.
didn't have great big huge cities.
still kind of hunters and gatherers but so much better at it.
Europe is different because of the nomads - wandering everywhere and settling in those different places and that's why there are so many different languages, food preparations, religion, everything.