HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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rugged ocean coasts
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rich, fertile valleys
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mountains and seas
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vast desert plateaus
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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: -Mountains and the sea cut off Greek centers of population from one another; such geographic barriers led the Greeks to organize many independent “city-states”. Each city-state was called a “polis”.
Detailed explanation-3: -The seas which surrounded Ancient Greece were: the Mediterranean, the Aegean and the Ionian. The Aegean was where most travel and export/importing occurred, as it had access to many islands. There were over 1, 000 islands belonging to the ancient Greeks!
Detailed explanation-4: -Greece’s steep mountains and surrounding seas forced Greeks to settle in isolated communities. Travel by land was hard, and sea voyages were hazardous. Most ancient Greeks farmed, but good land and water were scarce. They grew grapes and olives, and raised sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens.