HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Which of the following geographic term best describes Greece?
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archipelago
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subcontinent
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desert
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peninsula
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The peninsula is called the Peloponnesus.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -About 70 percent of the peninsula consists of mountains. Mount Olympus is the highest mountain. It is located on the eastern side of the peninsula near the Aegean Sea. The Pindus mountain range runs south to north on the western side of the peninsula.
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