Greece+18

​ Ancient Greece!!!!! by Andrea Castro and Sarah Nevarez

Geography-
Greece is mountainous, very rocky and it is a peninsula. A peninsula has three sides that are surrounded by water. But Greece is a peninsula made up of smaller peninsulas.There are also many islands. On the islands and peninsulas there are many mountains and onl a small amount of flat area used for farming and villages. Villages developed along the coast and in river valleys. Towns were kept apart by mountains and sea which made traveling very difficult, which made communities isolated, this caused people to create their own governments and ways of life. Greek communities spoke the same language but saw themselves as different countries. Since Greece was located near the sea, they became very good at sailing. They sailed the Meditaranian and established colonies along the coasts of France, Turkey, Italy and Africa.

Religion-
The Greeks religous system revolved around myths. There were many myths that explained why things happened. For example the story of Pandora's Box. It explains why there is disease, envy, crime, and hope.

The greeks belived in multiple gods such as: -Zeus, king of gods -Hara, queen of the gods -P of oseidon, god of the sea -Hades, god of the underworld -Demeter, goddess agriculture -Hestia, goddess of hearth -Athena, goddess of wisdom -Aphrodite, goddes of love and beauty. -Apollo, the god of the sun and music. -Ares, the god of war. - - - -

society and culture-
First the greeks were ruld by kings then ,the aristocrats other wise oligarch, then the were ruled by a tyrant. Peisistratus overthrew the oligarchy (in 546 BC)so they became a Tyranny; ruled by a tyrant. Around 510 BCE democracy was established in Greece. Each year 500 hundred names were taken from all the citizens of Athens and they all had to participate as lawmakers for one year. All the citizens in Athens had to vote whenever a law was made by those 500 people. Women, kids, and slaves could not vote. So basically all the men made the laws.