Why did Greece mountainous terrain influence Greek political life?

Answer 1

Like all civilizations, territories are usually decided by physical features that divide the land. Being separated from other territories, even on a smaller scale like city districts, situations cause people to do things differently than others. Different languages, cultures, religions and even physical features can change due to having to adapt to certain situations and influences (example: Charles Darwin noted on the changes between swallows that lived on islands and swallows that lived inland; the same can be said for humans, but usually less physically noticeable)

In Greece, the people were divided by massive mountains, forcing the similar cultured people to "adapt" causing them to become more independent, thus dividing Greece into city-states.

The Mountains in Greece contributed to the rise of the city states because it gave them protection from attack on the low parts of Greece. If your living on a mountain you cant be attacked from the sky because at the time they didn't have planes.

Answer 2

they made trade slower and harder. it was easier to trade by sea.
Mountains separated the Greeks ALOT! it was not only hard for the Greeks to trade, but because everyone was separated, it was also hard to govern the city states. but, to answer your question, it was hard to trade and it made it necessary to try and think of better ways of transportation, because some of the mountains were VERY hard to cross.

Answer 3

The Greek Mainland (Thrace, Epirus, Boetia, Attica, and the Peloponnesus) is among the most mountainous and hilly land in all of Europe, making land travel between the city-state minimal. It also directed the efforts of Greek city-states away from expanding their influence primarily over land and explains why non-coastal regions of Greece took the longest to develop. In addition to preventing Greek unity, the mountains prevented would-be invaders from successfully overrunning Greece. Unlike lowland regions, where a large army could simply march over and conquer all in their wake, the mountains would be to steep for cavalry to travel or create choke-points that smaller Greek armies could use to prevent the passage of much larger enemies, such as happened at the Battle of Thermopylae.

In order to avoid the mountains, most groups attacked Greek cities from the sea. Because of the protections from the mountains, the Greeks could focus on naval technologies that were more advanced than their rivals and defend themselves from this kind of assault.

Answer 4

Mountains affected Greece because it made it difficult for them to trade.

Answer 5

the mountains where to high

Answer 6

It makes it harder to live.