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GETTING TO KNOW THE ANCIENT GREEKS Weather
G 2 Olive oil, made from the fruits of the olive tree, was used in salads and in cooking, just as today. But it was also used as the fuel for oil lamps.
Producing olive oil was hard work. The ripe olives
had to be placed between two wooden or stone discs and weights placed on them to squeeze out the oil.
The crushed oil ran out into jars. Large numbers of olives were needed to make quite small amounts of oil.
Greece has scorchingly hot, dry, sunny summers. Rain falls only in winter. Wheat and many other food crops will not grow in much of Greece.
This restricts crops in many areas to grapes and olives (picture 2) and animals to sheep and goats. As only a certain amount
of food could be obtained locally, the Greeks built boats and took
to fishing and to trade. But it was always tempting for each city
to want to take over the lands
of another, or to spread out
on to lands belonging to their neighbours. It was a recipe for war.
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