HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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rocky soil, no major rivers, peninsulas, mountains, deep valleys
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rocky soil, rivers, peninsulas
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rivers, mountains, deep valleys
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hilly, mountains, deep valleys
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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: -The Geography of Ancient Greece The main physical geographic features of Ancient Greece are mountains, islands, and the sea.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Unlike many of these other civilizations, the Greek civilization did not develop in a river valley, but it was surrounded by water. 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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Mount Olympus – Home of the Gods (Zeus, Athena) Mediterranean Sea. Aegean Sea. Balkan Peninsula-mainland Greece, juts out into the Mediterranean Sea. Island of Crete (Minoans) Peloponnesia – where the Spartans settled.