Ancient Greece Notes
Greece Notes The Rise of the Greeks (1000 BCE ? 500 BCE) Greece was a relatively resource-poor region, but had access to: Foreign sources of raw materials Markets abroad Greeks were in contact with other peoples: ideas Geography: Part of a large ecological zone that encompasses the Mediterranean Sea & the lands surrounding it Bounded by the Atlantic O. to the W., the Alps to the N., the Syrian Desert to the E., and the Sahara to the S. Hot dry summers; windy, cooler winters Limited arable land, thin topsoil, sparse rainfall in the south ( couldn?t sustain lg. pop. Mountains, rivers, seas kept units of settlement small; in the N., where farmland was more expansive (ex. Macedonia), geographically larger states developed