HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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desert
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rivers
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mountains
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forests
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Detailed explanation-1: -The mountains, which served as natural barriers and boundaries, dictated the political character of Greece. From early times the Greeks lived in independent communities isolated from one another by the landscape. Later these communities were organized into poleis or city-states.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even though the country is famous for its islands and seas, some 80 percent of its landmass is mountainous. At one end of the backbone of Greece are the peaks of Varnountas and Grammos and at the other the Pindos range and legendary Olympus, just north of verdant Pelion.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mount Olympus is the highest peak in Greece. The 2, 917-meter (9, 570-foot) summit is the tallest in a mountain chain that runs north into Bulgaria and south into Turkey, via the Cyclades Islands.