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How has the Geography of Idaho Impacted your lives?

• Driving

• Vacations

• School

• Recreation

• Clothing

Geography had the same impact on Ancient Greece!

Climate of Ancient GreeceGreece has a Mediterranean climate• Winters mild and wet

-allows limited farming-grew grapes and olives

• Summers are warm and dry-leads to drought-grapes and olives some of few plants that can survive droughts

• November -Greece receives 2.2 inches of precipitation

+average temp. is balmy 64 degrees-Boise/Nampa gets 1.6 inches of precipitation

+ average temp is cold 39 degreesSO WHATS DIFFERENT?

Physical GeographyGreece is located in EuropeGreece is very mountainous• Around 75% of Greece is mountainous

terrain • Difficult to farmSurrounded by seas • Greece is located on the Balkan

Peninsula• Made trade easier

- could get what they couldn’t grow-allowed for ideas to flow freely

Greece

How Greeks worked with their environment Cut off by the mountains and the seas

• Isolated

-Led to the formation of city states

-Limited unity and interaction in Ancient Greece

-Fierce rivalries between city states

• Sea became vital

-Hundreds of bays for safety of Greek ships

- Skilled sailors

+Traded olives, grapes & marble

+Got grains, metals & ideas

-Adapted Phoenician alphabet

-Became base for all Western alphabets

City States

City States