Within Classical  Greek Cizilization There appeared ideas, Art  forms, and types of government whose influence on western civilization has lasted down to the present day.

The Greeks began  as one of many European BARBAAN peoples- that is, they had a distinctive way of life, based on farming and warfare, that was widespread in western Europe.

• 2000BC, began to migrate into Eurorope's southeastern  region, within easy reach of the people s of asia minor, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.
• within classical civilization,there appeared ideas, art forms, and art forms, and types of government whose inluence on western civilization has lasted down to the present day.
• Greek city sates were the first to practice citizen participationin government- on a resticted bases in obligarchies like sparta and on a much freer and wider basis in democracies like Athens. The city states also traded and colonized along the northeastern coastlands of the mediterranean sea and brought their distinctive civilization to many barbarian peoples of Mediterranean Europe above all, Italy.

Lo1 The European Barbarians

Over the thousand years up to the time of the persian empire, Civilization had spread from it's Sumerian and Egyption homelands right accross south western Asia and north eastern africa, and other regions of civilization had also arisen in India, china and western hemisphere.

although, most people still lived the prehistoric village life that had emerged from the agricultural revolution, including in the lands streatching two thousand miles northwestward from the estern Mediterranean sea that we today call Europ.

 The Earliest Europeans