WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Aegean Sea is home to over 1000 islands. The Greeks settled on many of these islands including Crete (the largest of the islands), Rhodes, Chios, and Delos. The climate in Ancient Greece generally featured hot summers and mild winters.

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: -Ancient Greece had the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Aegean Sea to the east. Greece is actually a series of islands or archipelagos and peninsulas. These islands and peninsulas were covered with high mountains, making travel by land very difficult.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first group of settlers started a colony called Ionia, in Asia Minor, in what is present-day Turkey. Later groups started colonies in Spain, France, Italy, and Africa, and along the coast of the Black Sea. These colonies helped spread Greek culture. Some flourished through farming and trade.

Detailed explanation-5: -Excavations show that the first settlement dates from the Palaeolithic era (11, 000-3, 000 BC). During the second millennium BC, Greece gave birth to the great stone and bronze civilizations: the Minoans (2600-1500 BC), the Mycenaeans (1500-1150 BC), and the Cycladic civilization.

Detailed explanation-6: -Greek city-states likely developed because of the physical geography of the Mediterranean region. The landscape features rocky, mountainous land and many islands. These physical barriers caused population centers to be relatively isolated from each other. The sea was often the easiest way to move from place to place.