Greasey

Today we looked at a powerpoint on Greece for half of the class, and for the other half we are supposed to take notes. Good thing I took all the notes I needed yesterday. There were some things on the powerpoint that I didn't have down though. Most early civilizations were near rivers like India was on the Indus river, China was on the Huang He river, Mesopotamia was on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and Egypt was on the Nile. Greece is not on a river, but is surrounded by the Adriatic Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Ionian Sea. Peloponnesus is the island below mainland Greece. In total there are 2000 islands that are near and around Greece. Ancient Greece had skilled sailors and shipbuilders, as well as farmers, metalworkers, weavers and potters. The people of ancient Greece were loyal to their city-states, not Greece as a whole.