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How did the location of Greece impact their trading? Please Help =D What was the impact of geography on Greece's civilization? Please help.... THANK YOU! What was the impact of geography on Greece's civilization for trading? Please help.... THANK YOU!
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- It sat right on the coast of the mediterranean sea, allowing for ships to easily trade.
- Look at a map of Greece. You may notice several important features that make it very different from other ancient-civilization countries ... let's take Egypt, for example. (It is important to make a comparison like this one, to understand how geography had an impact on making Greek civilization so very different from most other ancient civilizations.) Greece is mountainous (making travel by land difficult). Egypt is flat (making travel by land easy). Greece is made up of lots of peninsulas and islands; nowhere in Greece is far from the sea; there are lots of fine natural harbors to shelter from storms; and much of Greece is forested. So almost all Greeks had great access to the sea, and they had supplies of timber with which to build sea-going ships. By contrast, Egypt is one large lump of land (mostly desert); it has access to two coasts (the Mediterranean and the Red Sea), but very few natural harbors; no big forested areas as a source of timber for ship building. In Greece, fertile valleys and plains are scattered around between the mountains in many separate areas. These fertile areas produced grain or wine or olives, that could be traded to other areas. Similarly, the Greek cities were scattered around, and produced manufactured items that could be traded with other cities. But the mountainous terrain between cities and farming areas made hauling goods by land difficult. It was much easier and cheaper for the Greeks to develop trade by sea than by land. By contrast, Egypt's cities and only fertile land for farming were lined up in the strip of land alongside the river Nile. River boats and camel trains could easily carry farm produce and manufactured goods between the Egyptian cities. There was no need to develop much of a sea-going cargo fleet. These geographical differences meant that the Greeks exploited and depended upon the sea for trade and communications; and, because the sea could lead them almost anywhere in the world, they became "international" in their developments and outlook. But the Egyptians had virtually everything that they needed within that one narrow strip along the banks of the Nile. They did not need the sea to any great extent. So their trade, culture and entire civilization remained inward-focused.
- Greece is mountainous , Egypt is flat
