GREECE

• Greece


  • Mountainous peninsula
  • Fishing and Trading for living
  • Trade is important
• 3 Seas surrounding Greece

  • Ionian Sea
  • Aegean Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
• • Water and Mountains- Divide the land area 
• Gulf of the North- Almost divided the country
• Coastal Plains and Mountainous Valleys- Only place where roving tribes could settle down
• Crete- Largest and most important island
• City-state


  Basic unit of government
• Polis


  Political unit in ancient Greece
• Acropolis


  Center of the city on top of forfeited hills
• Agoda or Public square


  Center of political affairs
• Citizens or Hellens


  Name of greek people
• Hellas


  Refer to Greece as a whole