Ancient Greece Notes
- In ancient times, Greece was not a united country, but instead was a collection of separate lands in which Greek speaking people lived.
- By 3000 B.C., Minoans lived on the Greek island Crete.
- At the same time, people settled in Greece from the plains along the Black Sea and Anatolia.
- Ancient Greece consisted mainly of a mountainous peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea, 2,000 islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, and lands on the eastern edge of the Aegean.
- Greeks did not live on a land, but around a sea.
- Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and Black Sea were all important transportation routes for Greek people.
- As Greeks became skilled sailors, sea travel connected Greece with other societies.
- Travel and trade was important because Greece lacked natural resources such as timber, precious materials, and usable farmland.
- Mountains influenced Greek political life.
- Greeks developed small, independent communities within each little valley and its surrounding mountains, instead of a single government.
- By 3000 B.C., Minoans lived on the Greek island Crete.
- At the same time, people settled in Greece from the plains along the Black Sea and Anatolia.
- Ancient Greece consisted mainly of a mountainous peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea, 2,000 islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, and lands on the eastern edge of the Aegean.
- Greeks did not live on a land, but around a sea.
- Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and Black Sea were all important transportation routes for Greek people.
- As Greeks became skilled sailors, sea travel connected Greece with other societies.
- Travel and trade was important because Greece lacked natural resources such as timber, precious materials, and usable farmland.
- Mountains influenced Greek political life.
- Greeks developed small, independent communities within each little valley and its surrounding mountains, instead of a single government.
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