Name Date Core # Greece Geography Notes LEQ’s 1. What major physical features were found in Greece? 2. How did the geography of Greece influence the development of civilization? How has the geography of Pennsylvania impacted your lives? What type of climate was present in ancient Greece? Climate of Ancient Greece: A. Greece has a Mediterranean climate 1. Winters are and a. Allows for limited farming b. Grapes and olives B. Summers are and 1. Leads to drought 2. Grapes and olives are one of the few plants that can survive the summer droughts Physical Geography: A. Greece is very mountainous 1. of Greece is covered by mountains a. Pindus Mountains b. c. Dinaric Alps 2. Made it Difficult to farm B. Surrounded by 1. Mediterranean Sea 2. Tyrrhenian Sea 3. Adriatic Sea 4. Aegean Sea 5. Black Sea C. Greece is located on the 1. Made easier 2. Could get what they could not grow 3. Also brought ideas back with them Ancient Greek Culture: A. Cut off by and the 1. Isolated a. Led to the formation of i. Troy, Athens, and Sparta b. Limited interaction and unity of Ancient Greece c. Created fierce 2. Sea became a vital a. Hundreds of bays to provide safe harbor for ships b. Skilled sailors i. Traded olive oil, wine, and ii. Returned with grains, metals, and ideas iii. Adapted the Phoenician alphabet iv. Became basis for all Western B. What did the Greeks do? 1. They were 2. They had nice weather 3. They had fierce C. What Ancient Greeks did 1. Went to i. Peloponnesian, Trojan, and Persian Wars 2. Developed great i. Homer, Socrates, Plato ii. Herodotus- Father of history iii. Archimedes- Archimedes Screw 3. Built to the gods and goddesses .