Intro to Greece

Today in class we started a presentation on Greece. The World's greatest civilizations are all location on water, usually rivers. Mesopotamia has the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Egypt has the Nile River, India has the Indus River, and China has the Human He Chang River. Greece is a mountainous peninsula surrounded by bodies of water. We have to know where the following places are located : Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Peloponnesus Sea, Athens, Sparta, Crete, Asia Minor, and Macedonia. Greece had many skilled sailors and shipbuilders and also farmers, metalworkers, and potters. They had limited natural resources so they relied on trade. It was difficult to unite Greece because of its terrain. So they deleted small, independent communities (city-states) that they were loyal to. There was some farming land. It was called arable land, which is land suitable for farming. Greek let consists of grains, grapes, olives, and fish. The lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization. Temperatures are usually nice year-round, but it can get hot in the Summer, That's all for today.