HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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The mountainous geography of the mainland forced most Greeks to live along the coast.
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Greece’s mountains left little good soil for farming, so the Greeks searched overseas for sources of food.
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The first Greeks settled on the islands of the Aegean Sea, so they naturally became a seafaring people.
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Greece’s hot, dry summers forced many Greeks to give up agriculture and turn to fishing to make their living.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mountains and the sea cut off Greek centers of population from one another; such geographic barriers led the Greeks to organize many independent “city-states”. Each city-state was called a “polis”. The first loyalty of the people was not to Greece as a nation but to their own city-state.
Detailed explanation-3: -Greece’s steep mountains and surrounding seas forced Greeks to settle in isolated communities. Travel by land was hard, and sea voyages were hazardous. Most ancient Greeks farmed, but good land and water were scarce. They grew grapes and olives, and raised sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens.
Detailed explanation-4: -The sea has two major roles in Greek mythology. It is associated with the voyage into Hades, and as the primordial water, Oceanus, it represents vitality and even eternal life. Until now, scholars have viewed these two aspects as fundamentally antinomic.