CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Mountainous land surrounded by sea
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Pericles built the Parthenon
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Agricultural wealth determined social status in Greece.
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Olive oil, wine and novelties were traded along the Mediterranean Sea
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Detailed explanation-1: -Greece was a mainly mountainous landscape, with the Pindus Mountains and Mount Olympus, surrounded by water on three sides by the Ionian Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Aegean Sea. This meant that the Greek city-states of Ancient Greece were separated by mountains and water.
Detailed explanation-2: -Greece has the longest coastline in Europe and is the southernmost country in Europe. The mainland has rugged mountains, forests, and lakes, but the country is well known for the thousands of islands dotting the blue Aegean Sea to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Ionian Sea to the west.
Detailed explanation-3: -’Geography’ derives from the Greek – geographia, literally “Earth-writing", that is, description or writing about the Earth. The first person to use the word geography was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC).
Detailed explanation-4: -Mount Olympus – Home of the Gods (Zeus, Athena) Mediterranean Sea. Aegean Sea. Balkan Peninsula-mainland Greece, juts out into the Mediterranean Sea. Island of Crete (Minoans) Peloponnesia – where the Spartans settled.