* Important points in Greece *

The Greeks made many advances in art, technology, government, and science that have affected our way of life today. The Greeks started out as European Barbarian peoples. They soon migrated to Southeastern Europe, where Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Egypt would be in easy reach. They soon emerged as a "classical" Greek civilization about 800 B.C . The Greeks had adapted their culture from their neighbors, but many aspects of their culture were exclusive to them only.
The Greek City-States were the first to practice citizen participation in government. This led to democracy in Greece, and set the standard for many other future civilizations.

Over three thousand years up to the Persian Empire, civilization had spread to most corners of the world by this time. Elsewhere, people still lived the prehistoric lifestyle that emerged from the Agricultural Revolution.
By 3500 B.C., the people of Western Europe were civilized and organized enough to build ceremonial monuments based on circles and rows of huge, upright, boulders, as well as tombs and fortifications. These structures were known as Megalithic structures, meaning "large boulder" in Greek. One of the most known of these Megalithic structures is Stonehenge, which is a circular structure consisting of upright stones. This was built as a religious center by farmers and traders in the west of England. This incredible structure is still standing today.
From about 2500 B.C. onward, Indo-European nomads and peoples moved into Europe, and the settled people of Europe bean to create new ethnic groups whose way of life was a mixture of their original customs and Indo-European influences. new languages began to arise, which would be the distant ancestors of Greek and Latin. Their lives began to change, as there appeared groups of warriors usually with Indo-European heritage. They were horseman and charioteers whose lives centered around courage and strength. These warriors soon turned into gods of thunder, metalworking, war, and fatherhood. When the warrior died, his belongings would be buried with him. Next to him would lie his wife, with her work and possessions as well.
The main part of European life was based around farming. They settled villages or tribes, often separated from each other by great distances. The tribes would occasionally meet to trade and celebrate different occasions. Tribes would be allies in war, and would group together to live. They would join or leave tribes as they would see fit, and sometimes they would migrate if things got bad.
These people were know as the European barbarians, and there is no written records of them. eventually, they formed a civilization known as Greece.