GEOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT GREECE

• The coast of Greece is flat but elevates the farther you go inland.
• The central portion of Greece reaches 22000 ft. High.
• The mountains heights range all over the place from high to low.

GEOGRAPHY+HISTORY?

• Geography should be taught with history.
• Knowing the location of where significant events happened help you
• Better understand why the events turned out the way they did.
• Like how Crete was an island that had the advantage of spoting their enemies
• Or how Egypt flourished for hundreds of years with the Nile for trade and a water source.

MOUNTAINS

• Greek city-states were separated by mountains and learned
• How to grow with out having to rely on the others.
• The mountains made farming difficult for the city-states to feed their own people.
• Gave great tactical advantages over the enemy
• Archer towers, scouts, rolling logs down.

WARFARE

• When not in the mountains, warfare hit the flat lands.
• The Greeks used tight formations and highly trained solders on the battlefield.

DAILY LIFE

• Greek men trained if in the army.
• Other men did all of the physical labor jobs
• Women had no rights and stayed and managed the house all day.
• Children usually played games and had Woden sword fights.

THE SEA

• Provided fishing for all of Greece and made the majority of food supply.
• Greek created one of the greatest navies at the time.
• Used in warfare against invaders crossing the sea.

TRADE

• Trade within Greek was limited do to natural barriers
• Mediterranean Sea provided great trade routes with other empires
• When traders passed through the mountains it was warm out.

TRADE

• During war trade was crucial for the Greeks.
• Supplies were raided at sea by pirates and invaders.

CLIMATE

• Athens-January-11degrees Celsius, July- 28 degrees Celsius
• Iraklion-January- 12 degrees Celsius, July- 25 degrees Celsius
• Thessaloniki-January- 5 degrees Celsius, July- 26 degrees Celsius

BY: DANNY DURKAN