What is the importance of the sea to the people of Greece?

Answer 1

The sea helps block enemies of Greece from attacking because most enemies will not make the journey across sea and therefore have to travel through Greece's mountainous land. Since the mountains do not provide much fertile soil, Greeks rely on fishing in the oceans as well as trade with Egypt and other countries for resources, food, and other goods. The sea was also important to the Greeks because it provided them with transportation (boats, etcetra) to get to other countries,

Answer 2

Aside from being the Western Border for much of Greece, it was connected to two figured from Greek mythology: Io, a consort of Jupiter, who, as a cow, swam across the sea to escape Hera; and Ionius, one of the sons of Adrias (for whom the Adriatic Sea is named).

This is the body of water that one had to cross to get to Syracuse (a Greek colony) and eventually Rome.

Answer 3

The Greek Mainland (Thrace, Epirus, Boeotia, Attica, and the Peloponnesus) is among the most mountainous and hilly lands in all of Europe, making land travel between the city-state minimal. It also directed their efforts away from expanding their influence primarily over land and explains why non-coastal regions of Greece took the longest to develop. Conversely, since most of the city-states were relatively close to the water, especially those found on Crete, Cyprus, the Dodecanese Islands, or Cycladic Islands. Greek city-states favored marine travel which was more reliable and cost-effective than land travel. As a result, many city-states had strong navies as opposed to having strong armies. (Sparta is the one major exception to that rule.)

Answer 4

because Greece was an island and it was easy to trade and travel, fish etc

despite the fact that they were the first sailors

Answer 5

The Greece need the sea to survive because the need water to drink and to wash their clothes

Answer 6

It helped them with trade, and Greek ideas to spread

Answer 7

The seas were important because the people needed them to survive. They needed to drink, travel, and use it to get clean. That is why the seas were important to Greek people.

Answer 8

Greece is a very rocky area. They needed trade to be able to bring in food.