Greece+Eight

**Overview**


Greece is the origin of western civilization, it created glorious ancient culture and also had great achievement in music, mathematics, philosophy, literature and carve. Greece is locate in southeastern Europe where the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula that covers an area of 131957 square kilometers with many nearby islands. The capital city of Greece is the Athens where broke out war for independence, thus the flag of Greece wrote a quote :"Not free would rather die than".

Greece climate is Mediterranean. In some areas it gets more wet than others. The minimum temperature is -27C and the maximum tempetture is 48C. The most common winds in greece are the etesians. Greece has a fairly hot climate. It's climate is wetter than most of the other dry mediterrean climate. It also has cooler summers from other places and have cold winters.

-Greece is a peninsula. That means that Greece is surrounded by water on three sides. Greece also has a lot of mountains. The mountains are not big but made it harder to get from place to place.It is in the north of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania border; the eastern border of Turkey. It was close to Aegean Sea, the southwest of Virginia and the Ionian Sea islands off the coast.

Adapt and Manage
Distance between city-states, clothing, trade, and democracy were among some of things that were influenced by the climate and geography of Ancient Greece.

The Greek lived in a Mediterranean climate. Winters were mild and wet, and they were able to grow grapes and olives. Summers were warm and dry. Grapes and olives were one of the few plants that allow them to survive. Mountains cover Seventy-five percent of Greece. The land was difficult to cultivate and the sea surrounded Greece. This made trade extremely easy because the Greeks could get they could not grow. They were also able to bring back ideas from other cultures that they traded with. Because mountains cut off the Greek, this led to the formation of city-states. The sea became a important part of Greece.There were hundreds of bays,skilled sailors, and trade of olive oil, wine, and marble for grains, metals, and ideas, technology,and philosophies was common trade items. Although the sea encouraged trade, and the mountainous terrains enabled rulers to gain power, ultimately leading to the end of the Ancient Greek democracy and that creating war mongers.

The people in Ancient Greece adapted the their environment in many different ways. They farmed on the hillsides of their highest mountain Olympics using terraced farming, traded with other countries on the Mediterranean Sea, and also developed small independent communities because the mountains and hills divided the people.

Modern Lessons



 * In ancient Greece they fished and in British Colombia we do the same. The way we live different but one of the things we have in common is that we both fish. The men fished for food and were big sailors.
 * Fish is a big food source and was back then too.
 * The men did all the fishing and the women did the cooking and housework. We both fish and we both eat fish so that is what we have in common.

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- In the ancient world Greece was well known for sailing. They sailed around the Mediterranean. They set outposts and colonies wherever they could.

-Greece has an alphabet that is over 2500 years old. It is still used though.Some people believe that the alphabet was created by the Greeks but they are wrong.The Greeks really traded with the Phoenicia.The Greeks could see that written language was very important so when they saw them writing it down they traded with them.They did change the alphabet by adding some vowels. Also the Greek vowels were the first vowels in any language!

-Other information on the daily life can be found on [|this page]

**Reference**


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