WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Peloponnese was on the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Sparta and Corinth were the major cities on the Peloponnese. Central Greece, which contained the cities of Attica and Athens, was connected to the Peloponnese by an isthmus. An isthmus is a narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Peloponnese-home in ancient times to the city-state of Sparta-is the great peninsula separated from the mainland by the narrow isthmus of Corinth.

Detailed explanation-3: -Peloponnese, also spelled Peloponnesus, Modern Greek Pelopónnisos, peninsula of 8, 278 square miles (21, 439 square km), a large, mountainous body of land jutting southward into the Mediterranean that since antiquity has been a major region of Greece, joined to the rest of mainland Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sparta was a city-state located in the southeastern Peloponnese region of ancient Greece. Sparta grew to rival the size of the city-states Athens and Thebes by subjugating its neighboring region of Messenia.