Mountainous peninsular + 2,000 islands
Aegean and Ionian seas
they lived not on land instead they lived around a sea
peninsular
mountainous - 3/4 of land mass
rocky dry soil/ 1/4 was fertile valleys
lacking - timber, precious metals, usable farmland
skilled sailors

Balkan peninsula Mts. divided Greece into different region

lacked central govt.
small independent communities

loyalty - local community
dirt roads