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Notes:

Ancient Greece consisted mainly of a mountainous peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea.
It also included 2,000 islands.
The sea shaped Greek civilization just as rivers shaped the civilizations of Egypt.
Sea travel were important because Greek lacked natural resources, like timber and precious metals.
Mountains covered about three-fourths of ancient Greece.
Mountains divided land into a number of different regions.
In ancient times, the uneven terrain made land transportation difficult.
The Climate was the third important environmental influence on Greek civilization.
Greek had a varied climate, with temperatures averaging 48 degrees in the winter and 80 degrees in the summer.
Some of the people who migrated to Greece were known as Mycenaeans.
The Mycenaeans fought a ten year war against Troy, an independent trading city.
This was called the Trojan war.
Not long after the war, the Mycenaean civilization collapsed.
Sea raiders had attacked and burned Mycenaean cities in around 1200 B.C.
Greeks learned about their history through spoken word.
A famous Greek writer named Homer wrote the Illiad.
Greeks developed a rich set of myths and stories about their gods.
The stories were about love, hate and jealousy.
Greece was filled with many mountains.
Athens and Sparta hated eachother.
Athens and Sparta once went to war.
Meditterainian is Latin for middle.

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Ancient Greece consisted mainly of a mountainous peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea.
It also included 2,000 islands.
The sea shaped Greek civilization just as rivers shaped the civilizations of Egypt.
Sea travel were important because Greek lacked natural resources, like timber and precious metals.
Mountains covered about three-fourths of ancient Greece.
Mountains divided land into a number of different regions.
In ancient times, the uneven terrain made land transportation difficult.
The Climate was the third important environmental influence on Greek civilization.
Greek had a varied climate, with temperatures averaging 48 degrees in the winter and 80 degrees in the summer.
Some of the people who migrated to Greece were known as Mycenaeans.
The Mycenaeans fought a ten year war against Troy, an independent trading city.
This was called the Trojan war.
Not long after the war, the Mycenaean civilization collapsed.
Sea raiders had attacked and burned Mycenaean cities in around 1200 B.C.
Greeks learned about their history through spoken word.
A famous Greek writer named Homer wrote the Illiad.
Greeks developed a rich set of myths and stories about their gods.
The stories were about love, hate and jealousy.