Greece+9

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 * Geography:** Greece is a land filled with mountains and trees and the trees that you can mostly see is olive trees and it is also a beautiful island .It also has a rocky coastline.The Greeks lived on a mountains with water around them. The Greeks turned to the sea because the mountains were to difficult for them.Greek city-states were spread around the Mediterranean and with other large sea.




 * Politic:**Near 500 BC Athens became democracy.Democracy means to rule by the people . Also for the first time there was free citizen. Athens was ruled a group of powerful rich landowners. Later on at Athens was ruled by only one person which was a powerful leader.Early Athens was ruled by a group of rich land owners called Oligarchy . Oligarchy means ruled by a few.


 * Economy:**The Mycenaeans built fortresses all over the mainland of Greek.The most powerful and the largest fortress was Mycenae wich the Mycaneans were named after.Also Mycenaeans were the only one to speak greek.


 * Religion:**The Greeks believed in mythology and thought that everything happend because of the emotions of the gods. They believed that when something bad happend it was because one of the gods was mad.Greeks built temples all around Greece to make gods happy. Greeks believed in many gods these gods were at the center of Greek. Each story or myth explained natural or ancient things that happened. Today people have explanations of earthquakes,thunder,and eruptions of volcanoes the ancient greeks didn't they believed their gods caused these events to happen and created myths to explainthe god's actions.


 * Social Structures:**Only men can vote to get a new king.Also when men voted they would argue with the speakers.Sometimes more than 6,000 men whent to vote. only free male citizens of Athens could vote. Voting was usually done by hands but sometimes people would wright their votes on broken pieces of pottery