Ancient+GreeceRJ

Ancient Greece was mainly made of a mountainous peninsula going out into the Mediterranean sea, and included about 2000 islands in the

Aegean and Ionian seas. Rugged mountains covered about three-fourths of ancient Greece, the mountain chains ran mainly from northwest to southeast along the

Balkan Peninsula, mountains divided the land into a number of different regions which really affected political life, also caused more than one government to form.

Greeks were big on myths and legends, they believed in many gods like Zeus,

Hercules, etc.