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                Today in Western Civilization we started our PowerPoint on Ancient Greece. We are studying Greece because it was the first democracy of all time. According to the PowerPoint, all the first prosperous civilizations were waterfront property. Here are the main five: Egypt and the Nile, India and the Indus, China and the Huang He, and lastly, Greece and the four gigantic oceans/seas (Mediterranean, Ionian, Aegean, and Adriatic) surrounding it. In the middle of the Mediterranean Sea (the roots med meaning middle, and terra meaning earth, to form middle of the Earth) is the island of Crete, the biggest island of approximately 2000 islands surrounding Greece in the Ionian and the Aegean Sea. Greece is a peninsula, and juts out into the middle of the Mediterranean. Fortunately for Greece, they were extremely good boat builders. However, Greece was a very mountainous region (mountains took up three-fourths of the country) and the people of Greece weren’t that unified as the mountains separated them. Different Greece city-states even had wars with each other. As the mountains divided them travel over land was difficult, so most people in Greece traveled by boat even if the distance was longer. Lacked resources and wasn’t self-sufficient, so they resorted to trading over water. Greece also was filled with tradesmen who knew one skill or another, and used these skills. Greece was a large was one of the largest empires of its time.