WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT GREECE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Mainland Greece was a peninsula, which is ____
A
A landform with water on all sides
B
A desert in the Mediterranean
C
A landform with water on three sides
D
A landform with water on one side
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The landform of mainland Greece, located on the Peloponnesian Peninsula, is surrounded by three seas: the Ionian Sea in the west, the Mediterranean Sea to its south, and the Aegean Sea to the east.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ancient Greece had the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Aegean Sea to the east.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main physical geographic features of Ancient Greece are mountains, islands, and the sea.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to the mainland.

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