WORLD HISTORY

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. The country is extremely mountainous, with approximately 80% of the Greek mainland being mountains.

Detailed explanation-2: -Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilization, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, theatre and the Olympic Games.

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.