Greece was a place of a variety of differences in geography, ranging from the tall mountains to the blue Aegean Sea. In fact, even the Mediterranean climate was a factor in the Greek’s life, like the city state of Thebes. But despite some geographical differences, Greece maintained themselves and use the geography to their advantage in society, trade, and culture, socially, politically, and economically. Greece found ways to control geography, rather than letting geography control it. Greeks were a nation that, in a sense, were forced to create city-states, rather than forming vast polities. The reason behind this is because the mountainous terrain of Greece stopped Greeks from forming many polities of large land. This is an important aspect
