WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Corinth (British English: /ˈkɒrɪn/ KORR-inth, American English: /ˈkɔːrɪn/; Greek: Korinthos; Doric Greek: ; Latin: Corinthus) was a city-state (polis) on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnese to the mainland of Greece, roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta.

Detailed explanation-2: -Corinth, Greek Kórinthos, an ancient and a modern city of the Peloponnese, in south-central Greece.

Detailed explanation-3: -Corinth was a trade city in an ideal location that allowed it to have two seaports, one on the Saronic Gulf and one on the Corinthian Gulf. As a result, the city was one of the wealthiest cities in Ancient Greece. The Corinthians developed their own coins and required that traders use them when in their city.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the most powerful cities in Greece was Athens. About 2, 400 years ago, Athens’ port of Piraeus became the most important trading center in the Mediterranean. Goods from all over the world could be found there.