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What effect do you think the geography of Greece had on the kind of communities that developed there?

It is important to note what kind of communities developed in the Greek world before discussing the impact geography had. In Ancient Greece, small villages developed into large and powerful city-states. The various city-states considered themselves individual nations. At times, they worked together on the battlefield, and other times they fought one another. They also traded with each other and with colonies that they built throughout the Mediterranean Sea.


Geography had a profound impact on why Greece developed this way. Greece is a rocky, mountainous land with little arable land. It is also surrounded by the warm waters of the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean Seas. The lack of arable farmland, coupled with access to the seas, motivated the Greeks to establish colonies to provide food and relieve population pressures. The mountains acted as barriers between the different Greek cities.  As a result, the cities developed independently into city-states that were politically and culturally independent.  

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