Ancient greece
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- - Socrates
The landscape of Greece was very rocky and uneven so the land was very hard to farm. Wheat, barley, grapes and olives were the most common crops grown. Only about twenty percent of the land was usable for farming. The climate of Greece is seasonal. Spring is cool. Summers are hot and dry. In June wheat is harvested. In summer it hardly rains and the temperatures are in the 80's and 90's in Northern Greece and over 100 degrees in Southern Greece. It rains in the fall and temperatures get cooler, in the 70's. Crops like wheat are planted in the fall. Winters are cooler but temperatures don't usually don't fall lower than the 40's.
The Greeks relied mostly on the sea to travel and trade. Rivers would dry up in the hot summer months and overflow from the rain in the fall and winter. This made it hard to travel by boat to other city-states. The mountains and rocky terrain made it hard to travel by land too. When a polis got grew too big for their area, they sent people to other areas to start new city-states. City-states shared the same language and religion. Since over-land travel was so hard, most city-states were built along the coats and most were independent from each other.
The Greeks relied mostly on the sea to travel and trade. Rivers would dry up in the hot summer months and overflow from the rain in the fall and winter. This made it hard to travel by boat to other city-states. The mountains and rocky terrain made it hard to travel by land too. When a polis got grew too big for their area, they sent people to other areas to start new city-states. City-states shared the same language and religion. Since over-land travel was so hard, most city-states were built along the coats and most were independent from each other.
Success is dependent on effort.
- - Sophocles