Ancient Greece: The Challenges Of A Successful Society

Throughout history there have been many successful societies. Each successful society was formed in a location with natural resources and their land. These societies have flourished and put back together so many times. From being unsuccessful on their land, to their climate being crazy and ruining their agriculture, and their farming not producing enough for trade. There were many bumps in the road in each society and many challenges they had to face. But they finally started to build up from nothing. In Egypt they struggled with their agriculture and land from many rivers, especially the Nile In 3200-200 bce. In Aksum their resources were a big part of their geographical features; they had many seas around them. They were a big part of their

Greece had steep mountains and surrounding oceans and the Greeks were pressured into settinging in communities. It was hard to travel by land and crossing boats was dangerous. For example their land was so uneven it was hard for them to transport, that they mostly relied on sea travel. They had natural resources like limited timber, metal, fresh water, and arable land. The Greeks farmed but they did not have a lot of land or water. For example, They only had small streams and their only staple was their crops like grains, grapes and olives they were growing. There were mountains around the Greeks for example the mountain divided them, and they became decentralized into separate isolated city- states like Sumer but The main city states were Sparta and Athens. The Greeks were surrounded by the Mediterranean, Ionian, Aegean, and the nearby Black sea. For example, Due to the Greeks being surrounded by all these seas they rarely ever traveled more than 85 miles from their coastline. The seas were very important to the Greeks because there was not really any other easier way of transportation. For example, The seas were critical to the Greeks because Greece and Egypt needed to be linked for their trade and marked it near the east. A Lot of the city states had navies, like Athens on the Attica peninsula which also had the most powerful navy (The Trireme as well). The sea was also important to the greek because if the Trireme, for example, the spartan or any other enemies could attack them at sea because it would be pretty impossible. Geography was important to the Greeks because their main staples were the land and