Ancient Greece Research Paper

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Ancient Greece

Greece is one of the oldest countries today. It has a lot of history and stories attached to it. Greece also has a lot of geography attached to it too.

Greece is very mountainous and has a lot of hills. With it being very mountainous land there where not many city-states that were established, because there was no way to get over the mountains to see the other people. This also caused trading to be a problem in the more rural areas of Greece. But trading is not a problem for the people by the ocean, because Greece is a peninsula so they can go a trade whenever the water is calm. In Greece there is little to no streams and rivers, so water is very precious. The summers are long hot and dry and the winters are very mild so

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