Western Civ Blog 13

Today in class we got out test's back and I got a 92%. Then we went over the Greece is the word powerpoint. The great civilizations and key rivers in Greece are Mesopotamia / Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Egypt / Nile River, India / Indus River, and China / Huang He River. Greece had many significances such as the location, topography, and surroundings. On the test we need to know what bodies of water surround Greece, what large island is to the south/southeast, and we need to describe where Athens and Sparta are located relative to the sea, and to each other. we also need to be able to identify the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Peloponnesus, Athens, Sparta, Crete, Asia Minor, and Macedonia on a map.Greece is a mountainous peninsula, mountains cover three-quarters of Greece. There are approximately 2000 islands in the Ionian and Aegean Seas, this combination shaped Greece’s culture. They had many skilled sailors and shipbuilders. Also farmers, metalworkers, weavers, potters. They had poor / limited natural resources, so they needed to trade, it was difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain. Greece developed small, independent communities (city-states), and that’s who they were loyal to.