Ancient Greece is the Word
- located on the water
- world's greatest civilization... all located on water (usually rivers)
- Huang He River / China
- Indus River / India
- Nile River / Egypt
- Tigris and Euphrates River / Mesopotamia
Culture of the Mountains and the Sea
- Greece is a mountainous peninsula, mountains cover 3/4 of Greece
- approx. 2000 islands in the Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea
- many skilled sailors/ shipbuilders
- farmers, metalworkers, weavers, potters
- poor limited natural resources, so they needed to trade, difficult to unite Ancient Greeks due to terrain
- developed small, independent communities (city-states) that's who they were loyal to
- fertile valleys cover 1/4 of the peninsula, 20% is arable (suitable for farming)
- diet - grains, grapes, olives, fish
- lack of resources likely led to Greek colonization
- temp range from the mid-40s (winter) to low 80s (summer), could get hot in the summer, pretty nice weather year-round
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