Greek notes continued

Today we continued taking notes on Chapter three in West Civ. However, we just took notes from his outline since the presentation idea went extremely well in two of his classes (we weren’t one of them). Today we learned that the Minoans and Mycenaeans were defeated by “the Sea People.” This group was referred to as “the Sea People” because no one at the time knew who they were and they did not leave any written record of themselves. It is almost as if they are a type of historical “ghost.” We were also informed that the Greeks were the 1^st group of people to emerge as a civilization in Europe. The Greeks were also descended from the Barbarians. Also, the languages that were spoken by the Barbarians evolved into Greek and Latin. I think that it is sort of interesting that the Greatest European nations at that time evolved from the barbarian tribes.