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The Greek scholar Eratosthenes is called The Father of Geography.
The ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes is called the "father of geography" for that reason.
it was not the Geography of Greece which influenced western civilisation. It was Greek civilisation and the fact that the Greeks migrated out of Greece. They migrated to western Turkey, southern Italy and Sicily and they founded Marseilles in southern France. Thus, they created a Greek world which extended beyond mainland Greece. The Greeks influenced the peoples who lived near then. They also influenced the Romans. It is though this influence of the Romans that the Greeks later influenced western civilisation.
Geography is derived from two Greek words namely GEO and GRAPHEIN and when combined is called GEOGRAPHIA which means to draw, write and describe the earth
The following seas: Adriatic, Ionian, Cretan, Aegean surround Greece.
In ancient times, geography had a powerful effect upon the development of the Greek city-states. The dominance of water (the Aegean Sea and connected bodies of water) was one geographic influence, as it forced the Greeks to become experts at seafaring. The rugged terrain of the Greek peninsula was another influence, as it separated Greek societies and thereby encouraged the independence and variety that gave rise to such world-changing Greek cultures as the Athenian, the Macedonian and the Spartan.
Some consquences was that the mountains could get mudslides, volcanes. The lakes could block trade...
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Greek history influenced today's society because they invented democracy, which we still practice today in many countries.
Greece was built in between many rocky mountains and hills. This separated it and developed induvuidual city-states.
If I read you correctly, you mean the word Egean or Aegean, which in Greek sounds just the way you wrote it. The Aegean sea is the name of the sea where most of the Greek islands are.
In Greek mythology, it was Poseidon.
Aegean Sea.
Aegean Sea Culture
No, he was Greek, from the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea.
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Euboea is an island in the Aegean Sea. It is the second largest of the Greek Island, with Crete being the largest.