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GETTING TO KNOW THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Land of mountains and sun
Greece is a small country, made up of a peninsula and many islands, towards the east of the Mediterranean Sea.
We know Greece as a land of summer sun and holiday beaches. But the ancient Greeks saw it very differently. They had to live here, and they found it surprisingly difficult.
Mountains
Greece is an almost entirely mountainous land (picture 1) with only small areas of lowlands.
1 Mountains of the Pelops.
The mountains make Greece a very beautiful country, but one in which people cannot easily make a living from farming, or keep in contact with one another.
It was the mountains that made ancient Greece into a land of separate cities, each developing its own customs and ideas and not inclined to join with others into a single kingdom.
