Kick Start to Ancient Greece

The world's greatest civilizations have something in common, they were all located on rivers. Mesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates Rivers), Egypt (Nile River), India (Indus River), and China (Huang He River). Greece is very mountainous. Since city-states were separated by a lot of mountains, they often hated each other...even though they spoke the same language, dressed the same, and lived in the same climate basically...seems a little strange. Greece is a peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea surrounded by islands all over the place.

Interesting Fact about the Mediterranean Sea: "terra"- means earth and the entire word "mediterranean" means "middle of the earth".